Archive · 28 Sep 2026
Fifteen Haikus Find Wonder and Strangeness in Modern Life
These fifteen short poems look closely at everyday life.
They show people at beaches, in homes, streets, mountains, and cities.
Some poems describe nature, such as the moon, rain, flowers, and sunlight.
Others describe people using phones during moments that might once have been more personal.
The poems also notice animals, including dogs, sparrows, and a cat.
Memories appear in an old kitchen, while learning happens among mountain trees.
Love is shown through closeness, glances, and shared moments.
Together, the haikus suggest that ordinary scenes can contain surprise, sadness, humor, and beauty.
The excerpt presents fifteen haikus observing ordinary scenes, relationships, nature, and urban life.
Several poems contrast traditional experiences with modern technology, including phones at candlelit dinners and beaches.
The haikus explore memory, seasonal change, learning, love, loneliness, and encounters with animals.
Natural images include the moon, sea, rain clouds, flowers, mountains, sunlight, and shrinking shade.
The collection is excerpted from Suddenly the Moon by Anirudh Acharya, published by Writers Workshop India.
- Who
- The excerpt is by Anirudh Acharya.
- What
- It presents fifteen haikus about modern life and everyday observations.
- When
- The poems depict moments ranging from midday and afternoon to evening, night, autumn, and other unspecified times.
- Where
- The scenes include beaches, a city lane, mountains, a home, roads, and the sea.
- Why
- The haikus observe modern life through brief encounters with people, animals, technology, memory, and nature.
- Work
- Suddenly the Moon
- Author
- Anirudh Acharya
- Form
- Fifteen haikus
- Publisher
- Writers Workshop India
- Recurring themes
- Modern life, nature, memory, relationships, technology, and animals
- Featured settings
- Beaches, city streets, mountains, a home, and the sea