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haikuKATHA - Issue 50

Updated: Dec 22, 2025


haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India

Issue 50 22 December 2025 founder and managing editor: Kala Ramesh associate editors: Ashish Narain

Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola

Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar web editor: Ravi Kiran proofreader: Sushama Kapur

cover art: Priti Aisola


ISSUE 50 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience on this thread. Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fiftieth Issue! Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month! ISSUE 50 is now LIVE!!

In 2022/23, associate editors K. Ramesh, Shobhana Kumar, Madhuri Pillai, Akila G., Reid Hepworth, and Hemapriya Chellappan stepped down for personal reasons. A huge thank you to all six excellent editors. We wish them the very best.


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16 Comments


joanna ashwell
joanna ashwell
Dec 23, 2025

Many congratulations to the team on the 50th issue, what an amazing achievement. I am so grateful for all the hard works and support of this community. Always delighted to be included with such wonderful writers.

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Congratulations to Triveni Haikai on the 50th.Issue of haikuKATHA! Thank you Team Triveni for this beautiful collection of poems, and for including my poems. Congratulations to Priti for the beautiful cover art and my sincere gratitude to all the Editors for their dedicated efforts in bringing to us insightful and brilliant writings!


Warm regards,

Vaishnavi

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Good to hear from you, Vaishnavi! I am fine, thank you!

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Congratulations on this special 50th issue, Triveni team and it shows in its beautiful artwork on the cover and the quote!

I appreciate being part of this issue with a couple of mine making it.

Thanks to everyone for all the efforts involved in this success!

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
Dec 23, 2025
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Thanks, Raji.

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Robert Kingston
Dec 22, 2025

Congratulations everyone! Looks another fine issue. I too loved Picasso’s quote.

Congratulations to Bryan Rickett for getting poem of the month.

My thanks to the team for including a few of mine.

Happy fiftieth issue.


Merry Christmas everyone.

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
Dec 23, 2025
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Thanks, Robert. It's so good to have you here with us.


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Dinah Power
Dinah Power
Dec 22, 2025

many thanks for including the tanka 'in winter's frost'

this December also marks my 2nd anniversary with THI, many thanks and much appreciation to everyone in THI for your mentoring this newbie in my very first efforts to put 'poems' to paper

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
Dec 23, 2025
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Thank you, Dinah. Happy to know you feel at home here :)) Lovely.

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