World Haiku Series 2022 (100) Haiku by Richa Sharma (India)

Haiku by Richa Sharma

1.

war news

a spider crosses the floor

in a hurry

May/June 2022 Issue 9 of tsuri-dōrō

2.

diagnosis

mother walks past

the deity

Prune Juice Journal, Issue 37, July 2022

3.

mother’s face

i look at the full

evening sun

haikuKATHA, Issue 9, July 2022

4.

a firefly in the seed of now

Haiku Dialogue, July 6, 2022

5.

together

touched by snow

two red berries

Poetry Pea Journal 1:22, June 2022

6.

feeding on rice the zen teachings of my free pigeon

Whiptail Journal, Issue 2 – Summoning the Sky, February 2022

7.

endless pines i become a proverb

kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku vol. 1, no. 2, 2022

8.

chrysanthemum

how do i prepare

for the afterlife

Haiku Dialogue, June 1, 2022

9.

after the rain

asking me to stay

deep pink rose

#FemkuMag, Issue 32, January 2022

10.

instead of the medicine

can I drink

pink dusk

14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2022. 

Short bio

Richa Sharma resides in Delhi NCR, India. She loves reading and writing poetry in her leisure time. Since 2019, her work has appeared in numerous online and print journals dedicated to Japanese short-form poetry like Frogpond, the cherita, Gembun Anthologies, Dua Anthologies, Presence, Akitsu Quarterly, Modern Haiku, Whiptail Journal, Kingfisher, Failed Haiku, Drifting Sands Haibun, Under The Basho, Bones, Seashores, Wales Haiku Journal, #FemkuMag, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and others. Her work has also been selected as Honorable Mentions in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2021, Africa Haiku Prize 2021, 3rd Star Haiku Contest, Japan Fair 2022 Contest, 3rd International Competition for Haiku Poetry Japanese Films in Valli Cinema, 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, and Heliosparrow Poetry Journal’s Semagrams Contest 2022.