Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy
frozen pond
the missing sound
of skipping stones
tsuri-dōrō, May-June Issue #9 2022
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passers-by
an abandoned hut filled
with summer-talks
Creative Inspirations, May 2022
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under drizzling rain…
gardener dreams for blossoms
by the name of peace
Editor’s Choice: Kyoto Haiku Project on Peace
Tokyo Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun , 29th May 2022
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long walk
my shadow
oversteps me
Modern Haiku, 53:3, 2022
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rock writing
from grandmother’s hand
my first alphabet
Our Garden, Haiku Foundation Volunteers Anthology, September 2022
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friendship day how thoughtfully birds live with the trees
Presence # 73, 2022
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a stone in her tiny hand once a mountain
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022
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dreams she conceals winter chrysanthemum
Whiptail, Issue 4, 2022
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drifted thoughts the fallen leaves
Presence # 70, 2022
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who I am the body contours who I am not
Whiptail, Issue 4, 2022
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Brief-Bio:
Pravat Kumar Padhy is an awarded Indian English Poet, haikuist, and essayist. He has obtained his Master of Science and Technology and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. His Japanese short form of poetry has been widely published and anthologized including Red Moon Anthology etc. “How Beautiful”, a poem written by him, is included in the Undergraduate English Curriculum at the university level. Pravat’s haiku have been included in the school curriculum on the haiku project of ‘The New Trier High School’, Chicago. Pravat’s haiku are featured at “Haiku Wall”, Historic Liberty Theatre Gallery in Bend, Oregon and Mann Library, Cornell University. USA. His tanka is included in “Kudo Resource Guide”, University of California, Berkeley.
He is one of the International Jury Panel Members of ‘The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards’. Presently he is on the Editorial Board of the journal, ‘Under the Basho’.
Akita International Haiku Network 