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HAIKUsutradhar : 27th June 2025


A FRIDAY FEATURE


Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi

Prompter for June: Gauri Dixit


openHALL is back


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.


FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these while proving feedback )


Let the feedback be specific and constructive. Don’t be vague. Here are some helpful lines you could use to give feedback.


What is working for me :

1. The seasonal reference is good.

2. The image is very clear.

3. I love the internal rhythm.

4. When read aloud, the poem flows well.

5. The 'cut' which is so important in haiku is effectively done here.

6. I like the format ...it's short,long, short. Nice

7. I love the indent you have given


Points that aren't working for me:

1. The image is abstract

2. The lines are long.

3. Some words are redundant and can be safely removed.

4. The lightness of haiku isn't here.

5. Abstract words take away the haiku's charm

6. There is no 'cut' (kire) in this haiku.

7. There are two kigo (seasonal words) in this ku.

8. This is reading more like free verse.

9. This ku is reading as three separate lines. There is no connect.

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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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


12. Notification about all selected poems for each issue will be posted on CELEBRATION -on 10th of each month.



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:

27th June

Gauri Dixit


openHALL is back for this week!

Share your best cut and floor your editors!! Give us fresh and original poems, you can do it!


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Looking forward to reading your haiku.

Write on! Gauri

422 Comments


#2 05/07


emerging

from stillness

a summer dawn


Fatma Zohra Habis/Algeria


Feedback welcome 🌺


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Thank you so much Joanna 🌹 ❤️

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03/07, #2


family reunion

I toothpick

the tasteless talk


Lakshmi Iyer, India

Feedback welcome

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Excellent!

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a still curtain

on an open window ...

letters unopened


samir satam

Mumbai, India

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#2


whale-watching

we wave and turn

into little kids


Janani Sridhar

India

Feedback Welcome


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I like the innocence in this one Janani. I can feel the excitement and the beauty of the whales.

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
Jul 02

02.07.2025

#2


a jigsaw puzzle every word he speaks


Kalyanee Arandhara

Assam, India


Feedback most welcome

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Just for fun


a jigsaw puzzle every word he utters

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