HAIKUsutradhar . weekly prompts
A FRIDAY FEATURE
hosts: Akila G. & Shreya Narang
month of September: Shreya Narang
Picture prompt
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haikuKATHA - the monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India!
founder/managing editor: Kala Ramesh
associate editors:
Akila G. Ashish Narain
Firdaus Parvez
Priti Aisola
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 Post only your unpublished, original poems.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
What do you think?
Are the hands heading towards each other to greet, feel the touch for the first time, or are they saying goodbye by remembering the touch, the feel for the last time?
It is all about your perspective.
#2
time to let go
fingers caress
a cupful of sky
Feedback is very welcome
# 3 of the week
road to home . . .
her final resting place
where cicadas cry
feedbacks welcome
#3
chirography
of an invisible hand
twilight shadows
(feedback is welcome)
Post #3 || 23.09.2022
makeover...
she gets her layers back
(feedback welcome)
#3
autumn hush –
our hands in backlit
for an instant
feedback welcome