by Parth Pandya
Parth Pandya writes a set of eight haikus, each capturing a moment in time from school right up to college in terms of experiences one goes through.
Teardrop emerges
Resists and finally falls off
His first day at school
“Do your homework”
A voice asserts from the kitchen
He turns on the computer
“What of the other two?”
Eager eyes scanned the ground
In hope for the lost marks
“We are very inclusive”,
Stressed the Sister. The board warned
“No Hindi in here”
“A nationwide bandh”
A newspaper flung away
A bag flung happily too
“Akshay Sunil More?”
“Present Sir”, two voices shout
The dual proxies smiled slyly
“Homo erectus”
Few giggles are heard at the back
“Boys”, sighs the teacher
The dropout remembers
With his buddies on WhatsApp
“Sigh. Those were the dayyzzzz”
Parth Pandya moonlights as a writer even as he spends his day creating software and evenings raising his two sons to be articulate, model citizens who like Tendulkar and Mohammad Rafi. He has been regularly published in forums such as Spark, OneFortyFiction and Every Day Poets. Taking his passion a step further, he has recently released his first book ‘r2i dreams’, a tale of Indian immigrants as they work through the quintessential dilemma, ‘for here or to go?’ You can know more about the book at https://www.facebook.com/r2idreams
