wild bamboo
the pencilled darkness
shimmers in rain

meditation . . .
my self in the stillness   
between thoughts

our city stands
on liquid shadows —
cyclonic floods

in a ward . . .
the stark whiteness  
of the moon

low tide
the silence of a wave 
wets my mind

Kala Ramesh is an award winning poet. Her work covering haiku, tanka, senryu, haibun and renku has appeared in leading e-zines and anthologies.