Haiku 2018 Winners & Featured Writers

Haiku 2018 Longlist

First Prize – Javeria Kausar

Second Prize – Shobhana Kumar

Third Prize – Shloka Shankar        

Featured Poets

Vandana Parashar       Aditi Mahajan          Jagari Mukherjee      

First Prize – Javeria Kausar
Calm, tranquil water
with bodies in its belly-
Engulfing mirror

Second Prize – Shobhana Kumar
moon craters our fights like a sickle

Third Prize – Shloka Shankar
en plein air the redness of birdsong 

Featured Poets

forest retreat

the brook in step 

with wren’s song

Vandana Parashar

Moonlit night
Horns singing, starry headlights
Lovers crash

Aditi Mahajan

Sapphire butterflies

like memories in a jar

color the skies blue

Jagari Mukherjee