Five Modern Haiku by Jahnavi Gogoi

a whiff of summer

that scent of Patchouli

on his collar!

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jungle safari

a startled Rhino

takes cover in the Ravenna grass!

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reunion

stirring sugar vigorously

in the awkward silence

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hiraeth

wet eyes as I thumb through

the family album

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carpe diem

relishing sour Pomelo

on a winter afternoon

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© Jahnavi Gogoi

Ontario, Canada

jahnavigogoi@gmail.com

Jahnavi Gogoi’s poetry has been published in Haiku Corner by The Japan Society, Shadow Pond Journal, The Leaf Journal, haikuNetra, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Cold Moon Journal, The Usawa Literary review, Borderless Journal, The Chakkar, Poems India, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Inssaei International journal, Academy of the Heart And Mind, Spillwords, Indian Periodical, Synchronized Chaos, Soul Connection, Reflections, and others. She won the first prize in the poetry writing competition organized by the Chandigarh Literary Society in the year 2022 for her poem ‘If this isn’t love’. She writes a lot about her native state of Assam, India, having spent her early childhood years in the shadow of the Patkai hills in northeast India. Jahnavi now lives in the beautiful town of Ajax in Ontario, Canada with her husband and daughter.