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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited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: openHALL This week each of us creates our own prompt! I look forward to reading your work.
This week is the openHALL where I invite everyone to share haiku/senryu on any theme of their choice. Make us think, make us learn, make us share in your joy as well as your pain.
Warmest regards,
Daipayan Nair
# 2
it waxes
and yet it wanes
wandering moon
barbara olmtak
The Netherlands
January 7th, 2023
feedback welcome 🙏🌹
January
#2
5th January
farewell party
a gaggle of geese
argues endlessly
feedback please
#2...4/1/24
new year -
my resolutions mount up to
autumn leaves
Nalini Shetty
India.
feedback welcome
#1
morning calm ...
the robin returns
to the bike's mirror
K Ramesh
Chennai, India
#2
winter komorebi
a white cat peeking
through the bush
Keiko Izawa, Japan