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Updated: May 27, 2025


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Responsibility for the originality of the haikai rests solely with the submitting poet. 

Should anyone feel it is similar to another haikai, they are encouraged to directly reach out to the concerned poet.

Triveni Haikai India will take action, if any, on the recommendation of the submitting poet. .


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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
4 days ago

haikuKATHA – Issue 53, March 2026                                         SELECTED LIST is UP!                                                             Congratulations to all our poets! 


The editorial team thanks you all for sharing your poems on the various forums: HAIKUsutradhar, Tanka Take Home, The Haibun Gallery, thinkALONG, and haikaiTALKS.

THE TEJASVAT AWARD for March 2026, Issue 53, goes to Jacek Margolak for his heartfelt tanka and gembun. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, Jacek. We acknowledge your involvement with Triveni Haikai India and your sensitive feedback in all our forums.


tanka blizzard warning: Jacek Margolak

after all these years: Jacek Margolak 

lights out: Jacek Margolak

winter blackout: Jacek Margolak 


gembun after the raid: Jacek Margolak


Extremely grateful to our prompters and guest editors for March:

HAIKUsutradhar:Patricia J. Machmiller haikaiTALKS: Keiko Izawa Tanka Take Home: Neal Whitman The Haibun Gallery: K. Ramesh thinkALONG: Shloka Shankar


A very…


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Dinah Power
Dinah Power
2 days ago
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congratulations Jacek, for the impact you are having on this community, and your remarkable talent, not only in creating, but also critiquing - Bravo!

many thanks to the THI team for including poems and such from me, it has me grinning 😀!

and lest i forget, congratulations to all the poets in this community, whose efforts stimulate and whose comments often enhance our work 😉🙏

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mona bedi
mona bedi
Feb 09

What a pleasant surprise! Thanks team haikuKATHA for the honor.

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haikuKATHA – Issue 52, February 2026 SELECTED LIST is UP!  Congratulations to all our poets! 


The editorial team thanks you all for sharing your poems in the various forums - HAIKUsutradhar, Tanka Take Home, The Haibun Gallery, thinkALONG and haikaiTALKS.

THE TEJASVAT AWARD for February 2026, Issue 52, goes to MONA BEDI for her wide ranga of short-form poetry, covering tanka, tanka-prose, gembun and tanka-art HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, Mona


tanka:

looking: Mona Bedi


tanka-prose:  Lost World: Mona Bedi 

For Posterity: Mona Bedi gembun: every childhood has its perfect moments: Mona Bedi tanka-art: deep winter: Mona Bedi late night: Mona Bedi

A very huge 'thank you' to all our editors and hosts, who put in so much effort, time, and expertise, month after month, to get haikuKATHA up on time!


Our Prompters for…


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Honoured and grateful 🙏 Thank you Kala and all editors. Best wishes to all the featured poets. Special congratulations to Mona.

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Congratulations to all!!

2026 - And we have climbed the 51st step to 100th

Huge efforts by the Triveni Team - not an easy task amidst all the ups and downs in the daily routines ..

Wishing all the Best with more power and success ever!!

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Thank you so much, Lakshmi.

Yes! 51st issue :)))

It's all the good wishes of all of you, that haikuKATHA is doing so well.

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haikuKATHA – Issue 51, January 2026 SELECTION LIST is UP!  Congratulations to all our poets!


The editorial team thanks you all for sharing your poems in the various forums - HAIKUsutradhar, Tanka Take Home, The Haibun Gallery, thinkALONG and haikaiTALKS.


A very huge 'thank you' to all our editors and hosts, who put in so much effort, time, and expertise, month after month, to get haikuKATHA up on time!


Our Prompters for the month of December were:


HAIKUsutradhar: Gauri Dixit

thinkALONG: C.X. Turner 

haikaiTALKS: Billie Dee

Tanka Take Home: Michele L. Harvey

The Haibun Gallery: Lakshmi Iyer


Thanks a lot to each and every one of you. Now for the selection list :))


haiku

white lace: Billie Dee

shell after shell: C.X. Turner


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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
Jan 12
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Something that I look forward to every month... Thank you, Kala Ma'am and the team of editors for selecting two of my poems.

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