Senryu—Daipayan Nair

Hailing from Silchar, Assam, Daipayan Nair is a haijin. He writes micropoetry, mostly haiku and tanka poems. His works have been featured on various international platforms and weekly columns like Haiku Dialogue of The Haiku Foundation, Haiku in Action of Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and FreshOutMag. His haiku has also been published in the Frogpond Journal, the prune juice journal, Failed Haiku Journal, Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Triya Mag, Failed haiku — a journal of English Senryu, and the prestigious monthly of haikuKATHA from Triveni Haikai India. His recent collection of haiku & senryu titled "tilt of the winnowing fan" was published in 2022 by Hawakal. 

Senryu by Daipayan Nair 

1.

graffiti art walk—

the old beggar pees on 

revolution 

2.

shaking a jar 

of roasted raw mangoes 

Kolkata noon

3.

street corner night —

the ten hands of

a fuchka seller

4.

between 

the city buses 

her face 

5.

returning home

on a hand-pulled rickshaw 

the school song 

6.

lying headless

at Kali's feet 

the ash gourds

7.

midday sunshine…

placing the first shoe 

on his anvil 

8.

fearing a stampede 

the bael leaf 

in my folded hands

9.

late monsoon—

the tyre marks all over 

a placard 

10.

ganja roll…

I agree with his 

ganja roll