Haiku by Mona Bedi
funeral pyre–
we go back where
we came from
Earth day—
the footprints that
we leave behind
family graveyard
parts of me
already buried
morning sea
we taste the salt
on our cookies
long drive
I try to reach
the earth’s edge
cool summer eve
i walk barefoot
on the pebbled path
dipping my feet
in a flowing stream
childhood memories
tilling soil
the sudden glimmer of
an earth encrusted coin
coming from
and going into the earth
wildflowers
light rain—
the scent of petrichor
seeps into me
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My bio:
Mona Bedi is a medical doctor in Delhi, India.
She has been writing poetry since childhood but a few years back she started writing the Japanese form.. haiku.
She has two poetry books published by the name of “they you and me” and “dancing moonlight”.
She lives with her husband, two children and a dog.
Her haiku and senryu have been published in Failed haiku, Haiku in Action, The Haiku dialogue, cold moon journal, tsuri-doro and many others.
Akita International Haiku Network 
Please may I have your permission to use family graveyard haiku on my poetry blog in memory of my late daughter, Rachel, who was also a haiku poet.
Regards
Marie Sutcliffe
Regards
Some beautiful haiku. Please may I have permission to post the graveyard haiku on my blog in memory of my late daughter Rachel, who was also a haiku poet.
Regards
Marie Sutcliffe