A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Lev Hart
Prompter for December: Daipayan Nair
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited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: open HALL This week each of us creates our own prompt! I look forward to reading your work.
Repost (only 1 from Dec 3rd)
nature walk
the things we learn
about us
Jan Stretch, Canada
Reposting:- Poem 1. ~ Dec 1st
for twenty years
nothing but sass and flounce
growing petunias
Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
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Poem 2. ~ Dec 2
funeral chants
the bell crickets in tune too
Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
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Reposting as requested:
#1
steep decline
her daughter's headstone
not too far
Amoolya Kamalnath
India
#2
furrowed brows
of each one at home
dusk rain
Amoolya Kamalnath
India
1st post
Haiga
Poem by Hassane Zemmouri & Photo by Magali Bretou
the enthusiasm
of a small heart
surprise egg
Hassane Zemmouri
Algiers, Algeria
Feedback welcome
2nd post
new batteries
for the stopped clock..
small spider
Hassane Zemmouri
Algiers, Algeria
Feedback welcome
I tried to post this haiga and it appeared for a moment but then disappeared, so I hope it didn’t cause the glitch!
The image is my own, a detail from a painting titled Winter Sunset.
Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland