Mallika Chari, INDIA

Exclusive: Best of Women Poetry: Edited by Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy

SENRYU - WOMAN

back and forth

she swings hooked

to the morals

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futuristic

she lulls to cradle

her heart

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vacation

she relaxes in meeting

family's demands

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marathon

her race to cross

the line of poverty

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education

reading between the lines

she competes high

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coffee table

she swirls the froth

to turn the table

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arena

keeping to the rules

she plays her ace

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space

the orbiting Mangalyaan carried

women power

Mallika Chari, a poet and an artist, loves to give colors and shape to her poetry. Her poetry collection’ Lively Words’ bears testimony to this wherein each of her poem is represented by her paintings. Her poems have found place in online and print haiku and haiga journals and several poetry anthologies. She writes poetry, the haiku genre being her specialty, both in English and Tamil languages.

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Best of Women Poetry -2020 :: Setu, March 2020