In December 2019, I attended a four-day workshop on Creative Writing led by Prof Alan Maley. We got to know a lot about creative writing and were made to do hands on exercises. We were asked to write Haikus- a Japanese genre of poems of three lines with 5 syllables each in the first and last line and 7 syllables in the middle line (5-7-5). The last line is usually striking and may contain some revelation. Selections from what we wrote during the workshop will appear in a book. Here are some of the Haikus that I wrote:
Haikus

1. Cold and sleepless nights
   Long wait on deserted bed
   In painful fragrance

2. On a dark evening
   Burning pyre of my teacher
   Enlightening all
   

3. On a classroom wall
   A worm creeping up, falls down
   Tries again- succeeds