Haiku 2019 Winners & Featured Writers

First Prize - Vandana Parashar 

Second Prize - George Swaim  

Third Prize - Aftab Yusuf Shaikh      

 

Featured Writers

Anahita Bharucha                                  

Tina Sishtikar                                         

Ritika Sidhwani                                                     
Zainab Inamdar    


First Prize
teach me
how to be brave
__sprouting grass
Vandana Parashar

Second Prize
passive, dull, office politics
wearing down
Changez Khan
George Swaim 

Third Prize
held drop of water
in the beak of a swallow
this vague world you love
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh 

    

Featured Writers 

 

Anahita Bharucha

Time patiently breaking

b r a i n  c e l l s
                ubuntu seeping
 

Tina Sishtikar
Words broken- - -
appear on skin
as blemish and wrinkles

Ritika Sidhwani
thoughts fly and coo
like pigeons
in the city chaos

 

Zainab Inamdar

The iron snake 

twirled - waking up 

the concrete jungle