Poetry Corner: Airport

POETRY CORNER

– 10/05/16

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

♣ We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below.

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Delhi airport in the winter (Photo – Ajaya Mahala).

Deborah P Kolodji

the long wait
for an airplane part
travel moon

Deborah P Kolodji lives in Temple City and moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, which meets on 3rd Saturdays at 2 at the Lamanda Park Library. A technical consultant in her “day job,” she finds herself in airports all over the country several times a month.

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Mumbai Airport (Photo – Ajaya Mahala).

Kala Ramesh

flight passengers
swarm around
the conveyor belt
ah! the freedom to walk away
without baggage

Kala Ramesh writes and teaches haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and renku to schoolchildren, undergrads and senior citizens. She lives in Pune, India.

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Mumbai Airport (Photo – Ajaya Mahala).

Ajaya Mahala

airport garden
bees do not observe
the landing rules

Ajaya Mahala is a haiku poet and photographer from Pune, India, and works as an officer in Indian Revenue Service. He photographed many events at the recent 2016 Triveni World Haiku Utsav*, an international Haiku festival in Pune, organized by Kala Ramesh. (*Utsav is a Sanskrit word meaning festival).

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Delhi Airport (Photo – Ajaya Mahala).

Chen-ou Liu

our eyes locked
on each other for hours
at the airport
a middle-aged face
in summer clouds in the lake

Chen-ou Liu originally from Taiwan, is a celebrated poet and editor who lives in in Ajax,
a suburb of Toronto. He points to “the main theme” of his poem as “a long distance relationship that’s falling apart”.

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Chicago Airport (Photo – Kathabela Wilson).

Tzod Earf

reservations…
in the airport lounge
a good drunk
reassured me
elephants can fly

Tzod Earf (Todd Robinson) lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He says “This tanka reflects memories about the experience of my first flight to Air Force basic training”.

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