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

Author : Sameera Rashid 

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.

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