Haiku | Sameera Rashid

shady bodhi tree
in his scabrous heart
conceals city’s plagues

unlamented pain
Inside the father’s heart
falls as monsoon torrents

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virgins despoiled
at an angry altar
smile gods!

fetuses in the wombs
sealed by the hate goddess
healers pray to heavens

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stony night’s desolation
seeps
even into the sleeping lilies

blood splotches
on the school building
washed with dove tears

Sameera Rashid is from Lahore, Pakistan. Sameera contributes articles, poems, and short stories to newspapers. As a monther and a citizen, Sameera finds the attack on schools sad and disconcerting, while children are “drilllec to deal” with the emergency, they are also taught to “play-dead.” She writes Haiku on the theme of war.