Mona Bedi
The Quest
I sit on the swing on my porch. A warm summer zephyr caresses my face. The grass in my lawn flutters in the breeze. A yellow butterfly hops from the sunflowers to the roses finally settling on a nasturtium.
It is then I spot a trail of ants along the sandstone steps. Tirelessly, diligently they carry grains of sugar. Marching along, they climb up a wall in the garden.
One of them falls, gets up and starts climbing again. All this on a lazy summer afternoon!
sultry day—
we spend the afternoon
swatting flies
the drone of a land mower
breaks the reverie
About the Author
Mona Bedi is a medical doctor in Delhi, India. She has published two books of poetry, they you and me and dancing moonlight, and her haiku and senryu have been published in Failed Haiku, Haiku in Action, The Haiku Dialogue, cold moon journal, tsuri-doro, and many others. She lives with her husband, two children, and a dog.