Muskaan Ahuja
Born: India
Resides: Chandigarh
Muskaan Ahuja is a haijin who loves to enjoy good food, art, poetry, books, among other innocent pursuits. Whenever she feels an air of boredom, she immerses herself reading and writing Japanese forms of poetry, especially haiku. Out of more than 800 poems inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, her haiku was selected for the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, UK in 2019. Her poems have been published in reputed online and print journals like Frogpond, Failed Haiku, FemkuMag, Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, The Haiku Foundation, the cherita, and more. She even holds an honourable mention in THF Monthly Kukai.
haiku - cherita
temple visit-
the ants on the wall
returning with prasad
funeral service –
her off-white sari
so crisp
in silence
looking at
the full moon
unending thoughts
come
but not even one stays
white magnolia -
I am pulled
within
Publication credits:
“temple visit” Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2020; “in silence” the cherita 3:3; “white magnolia” Asahi Haikuist Network, March 2020.