The following are some of the good entries for our competition Winter Winds.
Yearning, a tanka by Samarth Chawla
Brown, skeletal woods
Shiver and snap in blizzard.
They reach for the sky
Like so many yearning hands.
The Sun is cold to their plight.
A tanka by Vaidehi Menon
Sweater static sparks.
Touch your fingertips to mine;
Not cold suddenly.
Warm woollen intimacy.
Sheep hair electricity.
A tanka by Harshit Bisht
I watch him pile snow
Making a cute short walled fort
To hide from snowballs
Amidst the smell of pudding
Fighting the right kind of wars
A tanka by Pratibha Bhatt
Consciously burning
In snow hidden, mortal rites
Withdrawn fiery lights
Trembling blue, in a maze dark
Crushed in white walls, dies a spark
My Cocoa (S)hot, a tanka by Naman Gupta
My clattering teeth
With shivering soul beneath
Warm?! Now – I only breathe…
But then came some cocoa – hot,
Mug toppled. My cocoa Shot!!
English Literary Society, IIT Kanpur 