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The Wise Owl

Literary. Creative. Aesthetic.

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Daily Verse

Week 4, July 2024

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Poems on Solitude
byMona Bedi 22nd July 2024

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winter solitude
just me, my longing
and a cicada’s call

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tic - tac - toe
the games I play
with myself

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zen garden
the stone Buddha and I
enjoy our solitude

Image by David Brooke Martin

Micro-Poems on Solitude

by Snigdha Agrawal 23rd July 2024

knitting needles...
silver, like her long braids
plain purl, plain purl,
memories gatecrashing

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full moon...
high tide
combing the beach
missing toe ring

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hearing-aid...
sent for servicing
reciting Gayatri Mantra*
calm, unbroken

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strident voices...
unmindful she writes
about muffled cries

Image by Ksenia Makagonova

Micro Poems

By Barbara Anna Gaiardoni 24th July 2024

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urban hermitess
an old trellis vine
grows at the yard

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on the dunes
the shadows
of the camels

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votive candle
entrust a tear
to the wind

Image by Yassin Mohammadi

Short Verse on Solitude

By Swaraj Raj, 25th July 2024

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at eventide
a thousand dreams bloom
in forest’s eyes

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splashes of desire
in a waterlogged paddyfield
an egret in breeding attire

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dangling on a spider’s web
glistening dew drops
wondrous union of beauty and terror

Haiku on Solitude

By Steliana Cristina Voicu 26th July 2024

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scented chaos
plum blossoms cover the bench
while waiting for you

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pandemic queue at the store -
the distance between us
a MilkyWay

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magnolia losing petals…
the only place our dreams
meet each other

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Teleajen river -
how endearing the wind
through the autumn reed

Biographies of Poets

Mona Bedi is a medical doctor in Delhi, India. She has been writing poetry since childhood but a few years back she started writing the Japanese form, haiku. She has authored two poetry books published by the name of 'they you and me' and 'dancing moonlight.' She received the Grand Prize in the 3rd Morioka Haiku Festival, 2021 and four haiku of merit in the World Haiku Review 2021/2022 along with an honourable mention at the Japan Fair 2021. Her haiku, tanka haibun and Haiga has been published in various journals of repute like Presence, Modern haiku, Haiku dialogue, Haiku in Action, Triveni haikuKatha, Drifting sands, Failed haiku, Stardust, Creative Inspirations, among others.

Snigdha Agrawal (nee Banerjee), has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She enjoys writing all genres of poetry, prose, short stories, and travel diaries. Educated in Loreto Institutions, run by the Irish Nuns, and brought up in a cosmopolitan environment, she has learned the best of the East and West. She is a published author of four books. Her works have appeared in several anthologies/e-journals, published in India and overseas. A septuagenarian, next to writing is her passion for travel. Her travel diaries can be accessed on the WordPress blog randomramblings.52.

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni @barbaragaiardoni is a 'Love Writer', author & painter. She has published in several markets. She lives in Verona City (Italy) and loves Art and good food.

Swaraj Raj is a former Professor of English, Head, Department of English and Dean, Faculty of Languages Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab (India). He writes in his leisure time.

Steliana Cristina Voicu lives in Ploieşti, Romania and loves painting, poetry, Japanese culture, photography and astronomy. Her haiku, tanka, haiga, poetry, short-prose have been published worldwide, including Asahi Haikuist Network, Daily Haiga, The Wise Owl-The Daily Verse, Under the Bashō, Chrysanthemum and others. She is founder and editor of Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal-Romania. instagram: steliana_voicu

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