Haiku by Faris Naimi

Mute Congregation

Trees pray with arms raised.
Lonely petrified sermons.
Mute congregation.

Faris Naimi is an undergraduate student at George Mason University.  He was born and raised in Vienna, VA, and he works as a dental assistant.  He spends his time as a student of Biology, a writer, and a nature enthusiast.

Haiku by Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Tall trees often brood
over direful loss of kin
White pages protest


Fallen brown leaves crunch
beneath puny paws of fur
Two squirrels home bound

Hues of orangish
blue dance in late afternoon sky
Spring's Elysium

Haiku omitted
Five seven five syllables
mutely disappear

Where no graves exist
A still garden lies extinct
Birds hover no more

Sana Tamreen Mohammed, M.A. B.Ed, resides in Kolkata, India.  She worked as a journalist in a renowned news channel and independent documentary making.  She won The First Monsoon Haiku Competition, Kolkata.  Presently, she woks as a teacher when not working on her manuscript.  She was featured in a radio show.  Her poems were published in various online literary magazines and translated into four different languages.