A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for December : Gauri Dixit 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 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these while provi

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped down from being a mentor for this forum. Triveni Haikai India and The Haibun Gallery are grateful for her exceptional feedback and responses over  the last few years. Guest Editor: Lakshmi Iyer Featured Poet: Teji Sethi A Thursday Feature 11th December Blame  it on  Amygdala     The smell of phenol floats in the morning fog. At the entrance, I slip my feet

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 10th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey I can hear them crashing through the underbrush and breaking branches those imps of unbridled ire who bide in my monkey mind Red Lights, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2020 do not fret over living a quiet life silence is what every note needs to make music Eucalypt Issue 34, 2023, Scribble Award win

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak whaling station — the weight of rust on the snowline                -Ron C Moss (3rd Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards,2007, 2nd place; Published in Dragonfly , 2007; republished in The Bone Carver by Ron C Moss, Snapshot Press, 2014)

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Joanna Ashwell     Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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 allo

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak starflower a daughter in the present tense                - John Pappas (Heliosparrow, November 28, 2025)

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for December : Gauri Dixit 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 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these while provi

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped down from being a mentor for this forum. Triveni Haikai India and The Haibun Gallery are grateful for her exceptional feedback and responses over  the last few years. Guest Editor: Lakshmi Iyer Featured Poet: Kala Ramesh A Thursday Feature 4th December Greetings to all of you!       My first baby step on Haibun was under the mentorship of Kala Ramesh. Kala

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 3rd December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey again and again  that deep dive into nothingness…  unfathomable  that the pearl of my life  is beyond definition  Tanka Café Fall 2019  Winner Readers’ Choice  a fall cricket  sings alone on the porch  I too, wonder  about being born too late  or too soon Skylark, Winter 2015 be still