ひとり立つ
娘だった
妻だった
母だった
そして今は
祖母となった
私はひとりの女として
生きてきた
けれど振り返ってみて
今ようやく気づく
私はいつの時も
ずっと
ひとりで立っていたのだと
Standing Alone
I was a daughter
I was a wife
I was a mother
And now I’m a grandmother
A woman I’ve been
But looking back
Only now do I realize
I’ve always stood alone
A short bio of me: I’m Manasa Reddy Chichili, and I have a Post Graduate in Psychology,
a poet and short story writer from Hyderabad, Telangana. My haiku and tanka have been published in several journals such as Under the Basho, Mainichi Haiku, Awen, Atlantean Publishing among others. My longer poems have also been published on PoetryPotion and Neccheli. My haiku was nominated for the Touchstone Award (2025), and I have also dabbled in writing haikus directly in Japanese (in haikutown.jp).