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HAIKUsutradhar : 11th October 2024

Writer's picture: GauriGauri

A FRIDAY FEATURE


Host: Gauri Dixit

Prompter for October : Linda Papanicolaou

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.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Post a maximum of two verses per week, from Friday to Friday, numbered 1 & 2. Post only one haiku in a day, in 24 hours.

2. Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.

3. Only post original verses.

4. For each poem you post, comment on one other person’s poem.

5. Give feedback only to those poets who have requested it.

6. Do not post a variety of drafts, along with a request for readers to choose which they like most. Only one poem is to appear in each original post.

7. Post each revision, if you have any, above the original. The top version will be your submission to haikuKATHA. Do not delete the original post.

8. Do not submit found poetry or split sequences.

9. Do not post photos, except for haiga.


10. haikuKATHA will only consider haiga that showcase original artwork or photos. Post details re: the source of the visual image. If you team up with an artist or photographer, make sure that it’s their original work and that they are not restricted by other publications to share it. We won't be responsible for any copyright issues.


11. Put your name, followed by your country, below each poem, even after revisions.


Poems that do not follow the guidelines may be deleted.

Founder/Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Monthly Journal: Kala Ramesh

Associate Editors: Ashish Narain Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar


Our poets in RED MOON ANTHOLOGY 2024:


       1) Susan Burch, vegetables, Issue 19 (haibun)

       2) Lorraine Haig, Tasmania . . . Issue 17 (haibun)

       3) Lakshmi Iyer,  autumn's . . . Issue 18 (haiku)

       4) Linda Papanicoloau, stamp . . . Issue 16 (haiku)

       5) Padma Rajeswari, ancestral . . . Issue 24  (haiku)


Hearty congratulations to all our poets.


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PROMPT:

11th October

Linda Papanicolaou

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Preface: Ernest L Boyer (1928 —95) was an American educator who served as Chancellor of the state University of New York, United States Commissioner of Education, and President of the Carnegie Foundation. Believing that to be educated, people should understand the “connectedness of things,” he developed a list of “human commonalities”—eight universal experiences that we can all relate to, no matter what nationality, tribe, culture, or time period we associate ourselves. A full list may be found online at https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2016/04/the-best-big-ideas-boyers-human.html.


Although one item on the list is already familiar to us as haiku writers—connectedness to Nature—for our prompts this month we’ll be choosing three of the others that you may not have thought about as much. A warning though: Whereas Boyer’s Commonalities are “big ideas,” haiku is a poetry of the particular. Do approach each week’s theme by thinking past the abstract generalization to a particular instance or personal experience.


Prompt for this week: Humans produce, consume, work, and in some way participate in economic systems. Let this inspire your haiku this week.

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Looking forward to reading your haiku.

Write on! Gauri

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Marion Clarke
Oct 21, 2024

trading desk

a full box of staples

for a pair of scissors


Marion Clarke

Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland

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Sandip Chauhan
Sandip Chauhan
Oct 20, 2024

#2 factory smoke

another sunrise dimmed

by the smudge Sandip Chauhan feedback welcome

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Marion Clarke
Oct 21, 2024
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Are lines 1 and 3 a little close, Sandip? Perhaps you don’t need the smudge?


factory smoke

another sunrise

dimmed

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Srini
Srini
Oct 18, 2024

#2 [18.10.2024]


small town sweet shop

I get two orange candies

as change


--- Srini, India


Comments welcome


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Padma Priya
Oct 20, 2024
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Good one!! As a child I was always happy to get the chocolates instead of change!! Very nice ku.

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Padma Priya
Oct 18, 2024

1st Revision: Thanks to Srini

19-10-24


hawker's onion cart

with QR Code paper on it...

barter to smart phone


Padma Priya

India


feedback welcome

*****


#2

18-10-2024


hawker's onion cart

with QR Code paper on it...

cash-free payments


Padma Priya

India


feedback welcome

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Padma Priya
Oct 18, 2024
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Thank you Srini! I get what you are saying. How about:


hawker's onion cart

with QR Code paper on it...

changed systems


Edited
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Fatma Zohra Habis
Oct 17, 2024

#2 17/10


working from home

nobody cares

about my messy hair


Fatma Zohra Habis/ Algeria


feedback welcome 🌺

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