‘Tributaries’: Haiku, Senryu, and Art by Shamayita Sen
Tributaries - Shamayita Sen
‘whirring ceiling fan / performing Kathak tarana in solitude’
shattered glass ~
a child shores pieces
of a bombed city
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storm clouds…
whispering stories to
my five year old
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whirring ceiling fan
performing Kathak tarana in solitude
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the rising Sun: my mother’s bindi
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ants in a frenzy ~
dispersed refugee
colonies
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first movie outing
her fingers graze mine
in a popcorn tub
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rumbling sky:
a hungry child wails
on the side-walk
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Marigold Field - Shamayita Sen
dandelion—
a child blows wishes to the wind
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October evening—
her fingers knit wool
relentlessly
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winter sun—
Baba’s fading shadow
on the wooden floor
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Shamayita Sen is a Delhi-based poet, lecturer and PhD research candidate (Department of English, University of Delhi). She is the author of For the Hope of Spring: hybrid poems (Hawakal Publishers, 2020), and editor of Collegiality and Other Ballads: feminist poems by male and non-binary allies (Hawakal Publishers, 2021). Her research articles and poems have appeared in various avenues in India and abroad. She can be reached at: shamayita.sen@gmail.com and on Instagram: @shamayita_sen.
