Hokandara Haiku

Dawn. Image Vinod Moonesinghe

Barbet’s whistle broken
By distant dog’s bow-ing bark
Heralding the dawn

Frog croaks a
Morning symphony
Pigeon coos

Koel screams annoy
Mynahs courting paramours
Cicada background

Thump thud clunk
School shoes on tarmac
Pierce morn mist

Roar of the schoolbus
Heralding modern era’s
Entrant dissonance

26 November 2013