Pravat Kumar Padhy
Pravat Kumar Padhy has obtained his Masters of Science and Technology and a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. His poetry has been featured in many journals and anthologies. His poems received many awards, honours, and commendations including the Editors’ Choice Award at Writers Guild of India, Sketchbook, Asian American Poetry, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, UNESCO International Year Award of Water Co-operation, The Kloštar Ivanić International Haiku Award, IAFOR Vladimir Devide Haiku Award, and others. His haibun are featured in many international journals including Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, and others. His work is showcased in the exhibition “Haiku Wall”, Historic Liberty Theatre Gallery in Bend, Oregon, USA. His tanka, ‘I mingle’ is published in the “Kudo Resource Guide”, University of California, Berkeley. His poem, “How Beautiful” is included in the Undergraduate English Curriculum at the university level.
Recently he has experimented with an innovative genre of poetry “Hainka’, a poetic fusion of haiku and tanka, with the image linking of the ‘fragment of the haiku as the ‘pivot line’ of the following tanka. https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/6076
melting away my pain-- garden dew
The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XV, No. 4, December 2013
in front of the mirror I repeat myself
snowfall he hardens his words
Gems : An Anthology of Haiku, Senryu and Sedoka, The Bamboo Hut Press, 2014
floating clouds birds fly the other way
brass bell: a haiku journal, July 2014
for all your denials the smiling Buddha
Under The Basho, 2015
Shadows swim across a floating migrant
Asahi Shimbun, 30th Nov 2015
the moon behind the shyness your crescent smile
A Hundred Gourds, December 2015
ink spots the colour of cleanliness
Otata 14, February 2017
autumn solitude my footprints on the desert sand
Presence # 58, 2017
obituary column messaging silence into the sky
Under the Basho, 28.8. 2017
the sound of silence into Shinto shrines
Akitsu Quarterly, Winter Issue, 2017
googled for a word full of twinkling stars
Haiku Foundation, Workplace, Theme: Lost in Translation, 8.3.2017
dune after dune the migrating songs
Presence #60, 2018
a piece of chalk in my pocket first day of retirement
Frogpond, 41:2 Spring –Summer Issue, 2018
what reasons for the trees aggressive wind
Under the Basho, 2018
trash bag the remaining chapter of my war history book
Under the Basho, 2018
hot argument snow falls of its own
ephemerae 1B, 2018
moonrise the sky from the oncology wing
Presence # 61, 2018
dew-wet the thought gently melts
dense bamboo bush the comfort of a sparrow
Presence 63, 2019
winter morning splitting the silence from the cuckoo’s nest
Under the Basho, 2019
the zero-shadow moment I am with myself
The Heron’s Nest Vol. XXI, Number 3, 2019
sun, sea, sand and the footprints
Modern Haiku, 50:3, 2019
fallen leaves light darkens upside down
Proletaria, Dec 2019
space rocks the strange visitors near the entrance
Proletaria, Dec 2019
conversation of migratory birds balancing the wind
Under the Basho, 2019
Seven Last Words from the Cross the colour of compassion and clemency
Asahi Shimbun, 19.4.2019
layered shadows mountain behind mountain
Mamba, Issue 9, 2020
on the back of a refugee a pregnant dog thrashing the shore current
is/let, 21.3.2020
mirror surface the past I leave behind
Presence #67, 2020
Dog is misspelled
the child discovered
the Great
(Original poem, “God” published in “World Poetry Anthology”, 1992)
LYNX, XXV:1 Feb 2010
sunrise –
the morning enters
without a knock
Frogpond, 36:3, Autumn 2012
half-moon –
the child wonders
the rest
Honourable Mention, Haiku in English: Best of 2010, Mainichi Daily News.
HSA “Haiku Wall” in Bend, Oregon, USA on June 3-5, 2011.
bird-watch
I communicate with
different vowels
A Hundred Gourds, 2:3 June 2013
melting candle –
widow wipes her
burning tears
LYNX, 28:1 February, 2013
resounding rain
I keep on murmuring
your last word
The Notes From the Gean, Vol 4:1 June 2012
Sunday morning –
vendor’s voice carries
my old memories
World Haiku Review, August, 2012
candle light –
the widow burns
her grief
Notes from the Gean, 16: February 2013
sad news –
I miss the colors
of a rainbow
Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Vol.1 No.2 August 2013
tribal dance –
the moon steps with
everyone
Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Vol.1 No.2 August 2013
rose garden
fragrance filters through
prison windows
Chrysanthemum 12, October 2012
flowing river –
my reflection
with the sky
Blog: Swimming in Lines of Haiku, July 2013
distant waves
the sound creates
my own ocean
Chrysanthemum 14 , October 2013
“The Blue Ribond of the Atlantic”, The Haiku Foundation, March 2014
tree to tree –
I walk along carrying
shadows
Issa’s Untidy Hut/Lilliput Review, Haiku #149, 2014
village pond –
the fisherman’s grief
still drowning
Cattails, Premier Issue, January 2014
festive day –
suddenly everyone
close to God
Bottle Rockets, February 2014
empty house
my memories
in every corner
A Hundred Gourds , March, 2014
rainbow –
kids count
in chorus
A Hundred Gourds , March, 2014
Eiffel tower –
the wind bends
the other way
Frogpond Winter Issue, 37:1, 2013
long walk –
the slum boys stare at
the distant stars
The Heron’s Nest, March 2014
mud-stalked
she wishes to be
with lotus
The World haiku Review, Winter Issue, January 2014
desert journey –
camels follow shadow
after shadow
Creatrix 26, April 2014
ripples in pond –
thoughts encircle me
in my solitude
Writers and Lovers Café , Spring Issue 2014
inaugural issue
I unfold the pages
of by gone days
Writers and Lovers Café , Spring Issue 2014
heavy snow –
church-bell melts
the silence
Writers and Lovers Café , Spring Issue 2014
old well –
I pour excitement
into its loneliness
World Haiku Review, Summer Issue August 2013
half-moon in the sky
her body veiled in mixed
colours of clouds
Deepti, Vol.8 , No.III Oct-Dec 1978 (Originally in Odia)
Translation: Pravat Kumar Padhy
(Translation of one of my Odia poems, Jibanata (Life), a Haiku-like stanza, from the short-verse sequence “Satyameba” (Truth Alone).
sound of a beetle
the window filters
its anxiety
Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Vol.1 No.2 August 2013
flight of cranes –
bridging the sea
with the sky
Editors’ Second Best Choice Award
Haiku Reality / Haiku Stvarnost, Vol. 8 No14 Summer 2011
wedding morning
the butterfly wings
its tender touch
Editor’s Best Choice, Sketchbook, Vol. 7, No.3, 2012
first rain
the paper boat carries
my childhood
Asahi Haikuist Network, 31.5.2013
old album –
the colourful life
in black and white
Frogpond, Autumn Issue 36:3, 2013
melting away my pain – garden dew
The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XV, No. 4, December 2013
disputed land –
the trees share their
tender shadows
Commendation and Honourable Mention, NaHaiWriMo, February 2013
rainstorm –
a lonely pigeon’s
heavy footsteps
Writers and Lovers Café , Fall Issue 2013
cloud patches . . .
recalling my faint
memories
Simply Haiku, Summer 2011, Vol. 9, No.2
End of year
celebrating the journey
around the sun
Asahi Haikuist Network, December 16, 2011
slaughter house
the morning sun lost
in darkness
Kernels, Spring Issue 2013
naked tree
the crows veil
the darkness
Ginyu, No 53, January 2012
thick foliage –
the sun hides behind
cuckoo’s song
Editors’ Choice, Four and Twenty of the Week, February 28, 2012
desert art –
sand mountains
of womanhood
A Hundred Gourds, 1:2 March 2012
candle light –
staring at each other
melting the gap
A Hundred Gourds, 2:1 December 2012
another sky –
my shadow bites
a bit of your light
Haiku News, Vol.1, No.40 ,October 15 , 2012
loneliness –
temple bell fills
the vacuum
A Hundred Gourds, 2:3 June 2013
blue earth –
lone robot
on the moon
Simply Haiku, Summer 2012, Vol.10 No.1
moonless –
sound of waves
splits darkness
Kokako 17, September 2012
straight road
the snake on its
meandering way
The Notes From the Gean, Vol.3, Issue 2, June 2011
rose garden
fragrance filters through
prison windows
Chrysanthemum 12, October 2012
dog is misspelled
the child discovered
the Great
LYNX-Aha Poetry, XXV:1 February, 2010
winter morning
two butterflies
warm the garden
The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIII, No.2, June 2011
temple bell –
the lone bird adds
its cry
Frogpond, 36:2 Spring/Summer Issue, 2013
rainy day
mud escapes
between toes
Ambrosia, Issue 5, Summer 2010
Valentine day –
between you and me
a thin moonlight
A Hundred Gourds, Inaugural Issue, 1:1 December 2011
dead of night
the lizard on the wall
still awake
Magnapoets, Issue 9, January, 2012
deep dark space
many cosmic townships
with their own light
The Mainichi Daily News, 23.3. 2012 , Haiku in English: Best of 2012
green vegetables
my mother smiles with
morning freshness
Editor’s Best Choice, Sketchbook, Vol 7, No. 3, Issue 43, July-August 2012
late evening
everything looks white
for the milkman
Simply Haiku, Vol.10 No.1 Summer 2012
flow of river –
I gather wisdom
at every turn
Honourable Mention: World Haiku Review, August, 2012
Religious conclave –
tender breeze unfolds
the hymns
Asahi Haikuist Network, 2.11.2012
twilight hour
the starlit sky
in my garden
Issa’s Untidy Hut , September 25 th 2013
cherry blossoms –
the scent bridging
the long river
Honourable Mention, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2013
crescent moon –
the old man returns
from no where
Editor’s Choice : Haiku Reality, Vol.10, No.17 Summer 2013
early morning –
the sweeper gathers
autumn wind
Presence, Issue 49, 2013