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HAIKUsutradhar: 22nd December, 2023 Daipayan Nair





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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited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: IMMORTALIZE YOUR MESS Please give us a peek at your untidy home, complete with peeled walls. Highlight the roach that runs every now and then across the kitchen sink, or the sparrow that poops on your flower pot. Alternatively, you can feature the dust mound your maid leaves behind to answer the door bell. Realism goes a long way in haiku writing. Paring the verse to its ultimate simplicity is the key. Show us the beauty in the mess:



fragrance

in the disheveled bed

a twinkling toe ring



– Kavita Ratna (Haiku Dialogue, 2023)



321 Comments


Aparna Pathak
Aparna Pathak
Jan 04, 2024

mackerel sky

tangled threads

on the loom


Aparna Pathak

Gurugram India



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tejisethi13
tejisethi13
Dec 29, 2023

#2

a haiku duo


Christmas break...

coming home with a head

full of lice

unannounced visitors

mother pushes the comb

under the mattress


someone who has stayed in a boarding/hostel, would relate to this. Would love a feedback!

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Milan Rajkumar
Milan Rajkumar
Dec 31, 2023
Replying to

Beautiful!

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Amoolya Kamalnath
Dec 29, 2023

#1 feedback welcome

29th December 2023


bits of paper

lying on the ground...

from somewhere

a cassette tape


Amoolya Kamalnath

India

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kashiana.singh
kashiana.singh
Dec 28, 2023

#2

28th Dec


mingled aromas

washing 100th diaper

like it was your first


feedback welcome!


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Pradnya Joshi
Pradnya Joshi
Dec 28, 2023

28/12/2023


sun kissed morning

after long time waiting

rays of hope...


Feedback welcome.

Pradnya joshi

Uk.


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