Beginnings Matter

ORIGINAL TITLE HAIKU 35 1# Brewed tea Wife and myself Nothing between us 2# He was metamorphosed Into a frog When his wife had left him 3# I needed A lonely woman Thousand years back 4# She shivered In yellow sun Struck by her coyness 5# God travels With three suitcases One for me 6# I kissed Her frostiness And my lips turned icebergs 7# The bed Gets embarrassed At our nakedness 8# Her hands Stopped me To pick evenings 9# We two rested In a cave of Kundalini Behind the waterfall 10# The alien woman Travelled six moons To deliver her baby in a burial ground 11# An eagle swoops On a field –mouse Tables of wedding 12# The woman kissed me I felt her hollow ribs As if in a spring dream 13# The woman’s hair Struck by a gale Made waterfalls 14# My wife locked Me one fine evening In my neighbour’s hole 15# The rats are away When mice take in My wife’s clammy face 16# The summer rain In exasperation Took wings to raid the moon 17# Lolo my wife Her green sleek steps Thundered an innocent fly 18# In the dead of night God made two wives One for me one for my neighbour 19# My neighbour’s wife Delivered a child When I was asleep 20# The woman said goodbye And I took a fish for dinner I mistook it for my wife 21# My wife is a canvas Where I paint My forebodings 22# A painter’s apprentice In sheer foolishness daubed in red my wife’s rear-view 23# A squirrel saw my wife And in haste Lost her guava 24# I was caught in neighbour’s bedroom By my wife last summer I lost my glasses 25# A wolf entered the graveyard Unannounced And annoyed my wife 26# Sarah my wife Lumbering Dizzy commuters 27# Sarah wed me And in brief forgetfulness Greeted my neighbour 28# A tiger ate Sarah my wife It happened by accident The tiger knows 29# Morning bell Wake up call I want to sleep 30# Pola my pet fly Fouled things up She ate my wife’s breakfast 31# My dog Pintu Hydrophobia I set him free on my wife’s posterior 32# Eons ago a butterfly Gave birth to my wife Now, a caterpillar 33# A hard slap Stammering Hurricane Sarah will win 34# You have gathered enough winters Woman sighs Leave one for me 35# The woman flapped her wings To clouded mountaintops Silky as white >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Comments I was thrilled. This was my first poem in PS. Now I am writing. Beginnings Matter. RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY Beginnings Matter - Poetry Contest Sponsor Richard Lamoureux 15 August 2014