HAIKUsutradhar. weekly prompts
A FRIDAY FEATURE
9th June Lev Hart, the mentor for HAIKUsutradhar, would be pleased to answer your questions and concerns.
hosts: Akila G. & Shreya Narang
the month of May: Surashree Ulhas Joshi
Prompts are based on emotions (called navarasas) that come to the fore when we hear ragas of Indian classical music traditions.
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founder/managing editor: Kala Ramesh
associate editors:
Ashish Narain
Firdaus Parvez Hemapriya Chellappan
Priti Aisola Reid Hepworth Sanjuktaa Asopa
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, rengay and other split sequences. Other than haiga, no photos are to be shared on our blog on account of storage/memory limitations.
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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 one day/in 24 hours ... 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 Post only your unpublished, original poems.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.
5. Most importantly, please do not post a variety of drafts, along with a request for readers to choose which they like most. Only one poem is to be posted.
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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 and contest winners that were published elsewhere will not be accepted.
6. 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 for the selection.
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.
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Prompt:
Raga Lalit: I was blessed to share the stage with my guru from a very young age. This was the first raga that I sang with her. Lalit is considered to be one of the most difficult ragas to sing in the Hindustani tradition. But then…it is also one of the sweetest! If you ask me ‘Karuna’ rasa and ‘Shringar’ rasa can be found by those who look for it! But I will let you decide for yourself. Here’s the link to Veena tai’s rendition of this beautiful raga.
Surashree Ulhas Joshi.
One can post poems off-prompt too. Our Indian saijiki: https://www.trivenihaikai.in/indian-saijiki
From the hosts:
A suggestion: please don't listen to this exposition just once and write multiple haiku. Listen to the singer's raga delineation multiple times. Let the raga soak in you. Internalise the movements, curves and leaps and most importantly the emotion it produces. Link to KARUNA rasa: https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/karunarasa Karuṇarasa (करुणरस) refers to the “pathetic sentiment” used in dramatic performance (nāṭya). It is a Sanskrit compound composed of the words of karuṇa (pathetic) and rasa (‘sentiment’). This sentiment is produced from a combination of determinants, consequents and complementary psychological states.