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HAIKUsutradhar : 24th January 2025

Writer's picture: GauriGauri

Updated: Jan 24


A FRIDAY FEATURE


Host: Gauri Dixit

Prompter for January: Prakash Thombre


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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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

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PROMPT:

24th January

Prakash Thombre


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Illustration in ink and watercolour by Prakash Thombre


Get inspired by the interaction between the nature and humans write your haiku here. Please note the prompt is to write haiku and not senryu.

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Looking forward to reading your haiku.

Write on! Gauri

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#2

cold day

the deserted hut tastes

of mom’s gruel


dipankar (দীপংকর)

India


Feedback welcome.


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Your ku is so touching and comforting!

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#1. 30/1/25


abandoned village

the monsoon winds stop by

soon after


Sumitra Kumar

India

Feedback welcome


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Thank you Sumitra.

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rainforest

through a labyrinth of corridors

                the whistling thrush


Kala Ramesh #1 feedback welcome

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I see (and hear) two clear pictures. Without a single verb, you have produced so much dynamics. Thrilled.

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
Jan 29

29.01.2025

#1


autumn dusk

her little hut darker

than her palms


Kalyanee Arandhara

Assam, India


Feedback most welcome

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
Jan 30
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Thank you, Dipankar.

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#1

Revised (Self)

puja

she rescues the goat

from Goddess Kali


dipankar (দীপংকর)

India


Kali Puja is celebrated by some sections of Hindus in Eastern India on a new moon night of late autumn, usually October/November. Feedback welcome.


First Version

Kali puja

she rescues

a goat


dipankar (দীপংকর)

India


Feedback welcome.


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