HAIKUsutradhar . weekly prompts
A FRIDAY FEATURE
hosts: Akila G. & Shreya Narang
month of November: Susan Burch
Textual prompt
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haikuKATHA - the monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India!
founder/managing editor: Kala Ramesh
associate editors:
Ashish Narain
Firdaus Parvez
Priti Aisola Reid Hepworth Sanjuktaa Asopa
Shalini Pattabiraman
Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar
Haiku, senryu and haiga/shahai (photo haiku) posted here on this thread will be picked up for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal - haikuKATHA. At the moment we are not looking at found poetry.
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Associate Editors, Madhuri Pillai and Akila G. are stepping down for personal reasons. We wish them the very best.
Earlier in the year Associate Editors, K. Ramesh and Shobhana Kumar also stepped down for personal reasons.
A huge thank you to all four beautiful poets.
Associate Editors, Reid Hepworth (from Oct 2022), Sanjuktaa Asopa (from 15 October 2022) and Hemapriya Chellappan (from Dec 2022) will be joining us.
A huge welcome to all three lovely poets.
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For some more exciting news! CHECK THESE FORUMS ...
Tanka, kyoka and tanka-prose to be posted on TANKA TAKE HOME
and Haibun to be posted on THE HAIBUN GALLERY
It will help you tremendously if you learn to comment on 'triveni spotlight'
'open sky :: SAMVAAD' and 'thinkALONG'
Such good poems are posted.
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The poems you post will also be considered for the haikuKATHA Monthly Journal each month.
Due to a sudden increase in activity, here are some quick guidelines, for HAIKUsutradhar:
1. From September 2022 onwards only 3 haiku (numbered 1, 2 & 3) per week/per prompt are to be posted on HAIKUsutradhar. 2. Please do not post two poems in a day ... just one and in total only 3 poems per week from Friday to Friday.
2. For each poem you share, please comment on ONE other poem which isn't yours!
3. Post only your unpublished, original poems.
4. If poets have NOT ASKED for FEEDBACK, please don't give. _()_
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Post your best haiku and let's have each issue with your best work.
Poems previously published on your webpage or social media will be accepted.
Poems previously published in peer-reviewed or edited journals or anthologies as well as contest winners that were published elsewhere as such, will not be accepted.
4. IMPORTANT: if any member provides feedback on the poem in the comment section, the poet must decide on the final version and post it on top of the original version.
Or else the original unedited version on your thread will be picked up by us.
On your comment thread, you need to post your revised final version (if you have one!)
Edited version: Your final version of the poem goes first, so it will be easy for our team to consider that for the haikuKATHA journal.
Original version: Your first version of the poem remains - under your final version. The way it is shown here.
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The Prompt
Outsider
Write about your experience as an outsider looking in. Were you the new kid at school? The new writer in a haiku group? Think about an experience like this. How did it make you feel? How did people treat you? Did you stay or did you leave? Since this is a big topic, try to focus on one aspect of this in your poems.
#3 autumn's end . . . amid the birds in the park a single mourning dove
feedback welcome
#3 feedback welcome
all the games we play i am only a bystander
winter mist ...
edges of the rooftops
dissolve
#1
11/11/22
new school
a boy comes over
to shake my hand
(feedback welcome)
#2
stick counting the cost of war