Haiku by Richa Sharma

 1.

the perfect moon

this beckoning 

amidst role conflicts

2.

night and day, the mind

a lodge of assumptions—

an invisible movement

3.

crowded thoughts arguing

these bustling guests

are never idle

4.

when nemesis enters

the identity of truth

is revealed

5.

a bargain with the day

dark blinds perennial

to us both

6.

strange custom

as conversation piques

the day comes back to me

7.

an unruffled climb

to the monastery—

the language of footsteps

8.

clouds mingle with breaths

this moment doesn't slip

the captive circumference

9.

mighty monastery bell

in the compound—

mundane erased

10.

ethereal is in emptiness

a song husks the soul

from panoply of desires