Vandana Parashar
DOB : 2nd January 1975
Place of residence: Panchkula, India
Vandana Parashar is a microbiologist and a haiku enthusiast.
Her love for brevity made her fall in love with haiku and related forms of Japanese poetry. Her work has been published in many national and international journals of repute, and has won her prizes and accolades. Her haiku was shortlisted for Touchstone Award for Individual poem in 2021.
Her debut e-chapbook I Am was published by Title IX Press in 2019.
party animal
I now watch cartoons
with my kids
Sonic Boom, Issue 3, August 2015
seven-year itch
I loosen my grip
on the kite
Cattails, Jan 2016
dad's funeral...
how I wish he was
a phoenix
First place - 15th Indian Kukai February 2016 - Theme-Ash
fish bowl
is there a world
outside home
Sonicboom, Issue 5, April 2016
high school...
my daughter tucks her skirt
a little higher
cattails, April 2018
dramatics club
that headache when visiting
in-laws
cattails, October 2018
past life connection
... did we share this
silence there too
#Femku mag, March 2019
lipstick on his shirt
I put an extra heap full
of pepper in curry
Poetry Pea Podcast, Series 3, Episode 6, 16th March 2020
night duty
she puts someone else's
baby to sleep
Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2020
pregnancy test
have my eggs been
quarantined too
Failed Haiku, Volume 5, Issue 54, June 2020
Alzheimer's
she is my mother
on and off
Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 23rd September 2020
hospital room
I sing a lullaby
to my empty womb
Second Prize, THF Kukai, Oct 2020
another friend gone
I wonder who will give
my eulogy
Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 20th Jan 2021
detox
I don’t ask anyone
how I look
Prune Juice, Issue 33, March 2021
mid-life crisis
will I always be
someone’s something
Cold Moon Journal, 13th March 2021
burqa
and yet
catcalls
Cold Moon Journal, 20th March 2021
turbulence
all those times I could’ve said
I love you
Highly Commended, 4th Santoka International Haiku Contest, 2021
your indifference
I feel a lump
in my breast
gutting fish
my daughter says she doesn't
want to be like me
a mother’s life revolving door