A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Kala Ramesh
Prompter for January: Marilyn Ashbaugh
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited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
PROMPT: January 19th 2024
This month we will explore the elements of earth, wind, and water and how they weave through our haiku.
Week 3: Water.
Water takes many forms and shapes from a dew drop to an ocean. It can obscure with steam and fog or reveal with its power to cleanse. Please share your haiku inspired by water.
our bare feet
touch the lake
ripple by ripple
Karina M. Young
Through the Lupines
shore leave
the channel grows deeper
between us
J. Hahn Doleman
MAYFLY
For further study:
In Kala's book, beyond the horizon beyond, the haiku section is divided by elements: space, wind, fire, water and earth. The preface is a good resource for a deeper dive into the elements as they relate to the five senses.