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The Wise Owl

Literary. Creative. Aesthetic.

A Monthly Online magazine

Daily Verse

Week 4, September 2024

Haiku on Nostalgia
by Deborah Bennett 25th Sep 2024

child's tin soldier on top of an an old decrepit garden wall.jpg

child's tin soldier

still on the garden wall -

autumn dawn

orange ball of setting sun.jpg

cricket in the palm

of a five year old -

orange setting sun

a middle-aged woman lighting a yule log.jpg

day after day

Christmas gone

i light the yule log

Poems on Nostalgia

by Sandip Chauhan 24th September 2024

bullock cart on a dirt road in India.jpg

bullock cart creaks

on the dirt road

fading murals

speak of bygone tales

under evening stars

crow perched on the roof of a train station in india.jpg

crow perches

on the old station

his final wave drifts

with the distant rumble

of trains long departed

a broken lantern swaying in the balcony of a deceript haveli.jpg

a broken lantern

dangles from the balcony

missed arrivals

trail the fleeting arcs

of comets in the dark

Poems on Nostalgia

By Vijay Prasad 30 th September 2024

Image by Casey Horner

inside her breast-pocket a piece of night

Image by Gary Meulemans

a lonely verb nostalgic about the active days

abstract in black & white.jpg

late night -

only the sound

of nails growing

night abstract.jpg

in her digital heart my neatly arranged nights

fossils abstract.jpg

fossils of me in her neon smiles

abstract black & white.jpg

winter night a gaze still clings to my bones

Poems on Nostalgia

By Kavita Ratna 26th September 2024

eyes of a child.jpg

aftertaste of

peppermint candy

eyes look for appa

a ruby ring lying on a table.jpg

ruby-red

the wedding ring

leaves a mark

names written on a steamy mirror .jpg

names

on a steamy mirror

vanishing act

books strewn on the table.jpg

Poems on Nostalgia

By Giuliana Ravagalia 27th September 2024

yellow flower.jpg

roots...
a yellow flower
before leaving

beach with waves.jpg

doorstep -
rhythm of the waves
so far away

red maple.jpg

red maple -
slides on the water
the light of sunset

Biographies of Poets

Al Gallia is a poet from Lafayette, Louisiana USA. He loves writing poetry in every moment he can spare.

Born into a literary family in Punjab, India, Sandip Chauhan holds a PhD in Punjabi literature. Currently residing in Northern Virginia, USA, she pursues a career as a bank regulator in the federal government. Chauhan has contributed to three haiku anthologies: "In One Breath: A Haiku Moment," co-edited by her; "Kokil Anmb Sunhavi Bole" (The Sweet Song of Koel Bird from the Mango Tree); and "Beyond the Fields," a trilingual haiku collection in English, Punjabi, and Hindi. Additionally, she authored "Sprouting Grass," a haiku poetry collection. With a deep passion for Japanese haiku, Chauhan finds joy in expressing herself through writing poetry in her mother tongue, Punjabi.

Deborah A. Bennett is an American poet whose poetic work consists mostly of haiku and senryu. Her poems have most recently appeared in Acorn Haiku, Fresh Out Magazine and The Mamba, Journal of the Africa Haiku Network.

Kavita Ratna is a children's rights activist, poet and a theatre enthusiast. Sea Glass is her anthology of poems published by Red River. Her poems have appeared in The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess within, A little book of serendipity, Muse India, The Wise Owl, Triveni Hakai India, Haiku in Action, the Scarlet Dragonfly, the Cold Moon Journal, Five Fleas Itchy poetry, the Haiku Dialogue, Stardust Haiku, Leaf (Journal of The Daily Haiku), and many others. She was on the Haiku panel at the Glass House Poetry Festival, Bangalore, 2024. She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2024.

Giuliana Ravaglia was born in the province of Bologna (Italy), is a former primary school teacher and has a great love for poetry, especially haiku. His poems have been published on websites and online magazines: Otata, Troutswirl, ESUJ-H, Asahi Haikuist Network, The Mainichi, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Haikuuniverse, Cold Moon Journal, Akita International Haiku Network, The Bamboo Hut, Take 5ive, Haiku Corner, Memoirs of a Geisha, HaikuNetra, Haiku World, Failed Haiku among others. he received Honorable mention in Haiku EuroTop 100.

Vijay Prasad is a poet from Patna, India. He is disappointingly interested in life. He has a passion for haiku, language, philosophy, and so on ... He is published in Bones, Under the Basho, tinywords, Failed Haiku, The Mumba Journal, Haiku Dialogue, Prune Juice, among others.

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