haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics: toriawase |a saturday gathering under the banyan tree A Disclaimer Responsibility for the originality of the haikai rests solely with the submitting poet.  If anyone feels that it is similar to another haikai, they are encouraged to contact the relevant poet directly . Triveni Haikai India will take any action as recommended by the submitting poet. *** Special Guest Poet : Keiko Iza

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for March : Saumya Bansal OUR MISSION 1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt. 2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these whi

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Linda Papanicolaou Featured Poet :   Patricia J. Machmiller Host: Srinivas Sambangi A Thursday Feature 12th March 2026 In the thick of it . . . Patricia J. Machmiller This morning a dense fog muffles the sound of breakers. It rolls shoreward, rises curling lightly, passing around and over the house. A hawk on the hunt flies low over the dunes. Today’s news arrives sheat

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our  Wednesday Feature! 11 th  March 2026 poet of the month:  Kanjini Devi   now you are one  with water and wind  ashes to ashes  I whisper your name  at first and final light                                            (haikuKATHA #20 June 2023)      lilac clusters   adorn the jacaranda   we planted   if only you could see   all that you have given                  

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak changing kimonos between seasons . . .       my ordinary life - Pamela A. Babusci ( 1st R.H. Blyth Award (World Haiku Club) 2002, HM World Haiku Review 2:2, July 2002, 1st With Words International Haiku Contest ,2008   )

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Jenny Shepherd Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal -- haikuKATHA, each month. Poets are requested to post poems (haiku/senryu) that adhere to the prompts/exercises given. Only 1 poem to be posted in   24 hours. Total 2 poems per poet  are allowed eac

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak f refl es      some sold ers some pac f sts - Scott Metz (The Heron’s Nest Volume XXVI.2: June 2025 )

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for March : Saumya Bansal OUR MISSION 1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt. 2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these whi

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Linda Papanicolaou Featured Poet :   Carol MacRury Host: Srinivas Sambangi A Thursday Feature 5th March 2026 New Year’s Eve Carol MacRury The clock leans toward midnight, and the room hums with borrowed joy. Someone laughs too loudly, someone else pretends they aren’t crying. Still, I lift my glass. Hope is a stubborn thing, and even sadness softens when the world count