Debarati’s five haiku capture life’s transient moments, from sorrow’s echo to joy’s fleeting bloom, captured in nature’s cycles and human memory, exclusively for Different Truths.

this too shall pass 
dad's last words
on the hospice bed
 
deepening winter 
grandpa's armchair
gathers snow

merry-go-round
a child's giggle 
through candy floss teeth 
 
spring colours —
strewn across the golf course 
yellow palash
 
leaving footprints in the air 
school playground 
 
morning lake
grandpa sips lemon tea
with the morning newspaper 

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Debarati Sen

Debarati Sen, an award-winning poet from Kolkata, published two solo poetry collections and contributed to more than 10 anthologies. She has recently made it to the top 50 poets in the NaPoWriMo 2023 writing challenge, and her poem, ‘Maple Dreams’, has been selected for the Yearbook 2022 to be published by Hawakal Publishers. Her haiku have been published in Haikuniverse, Five Fleas, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Suspect Device, Pan Haiku Review, and the Horror Senryu journal.