editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: K. Ramesh Featured Poet: Nalini A Thursday Feature February 26, 2026   Between Brushstrokes I linger over a painting whose title feels like an open gate. The scene itself is simple: weathered boards, a slant of late sun, and just enough quiet to invite a pause. What draws me in is not the image but the space the title leaves open. I find myself stepping into that room,

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 25th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman my poetry group gathers at the park terrace rain-blessed leaves transform the concrete surface into a Greek mossaic   cattails, September 2014, Pen the Painting prize a lovely seabird dips her wing into a wave we drop anchor rising from the spindrift a rainbow leaves us too soon

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Shloka Shankar Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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 for dad the smaller cairn on the summit - Tim Gardiner (Frogpond 39.3, Autumn 2016)

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for February : Patricia J. Machmiller 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

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: K. Ramesh Featured Poet: Jacek Margolak A Thursday Feature February 19, 2026   Reminding I take the train. Dreaming of one with puffing steam. The station. The streets of my hometown. I don't recognize anything. home again all my shoes are too small Jacek Margolak Posted in The Haibun Gallery: January, 2026 Comments: Ezra Pound’s poem titled “In a Station of the Metr

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 18th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman waiting on the dock a woman holds a placard with my name on it I am put in her arms my mother is singing to me Eucalypt 15, 2013 Distinctive Scribbler chosen by Julie Thorndike wishful thinking that long ago I would find my touchstone — today crossing a bridge it was right beneath me red l

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Shloka Shankar 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 lost in my digital footprint ... the weight of snow - Jacob Salzer (First published in Kingfisher #2, December 2020. Also appears in Unplugged:Haiku & Tanka, Lulu Press Inc., 2022)