A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Gauri Dixit
Prompter for June: John Pappas
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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
Our poets in RED MOON ANTHOLOGY 2024:
1) Susan Burch, vegetables, Issue 19 (haibun)
2) Lorraine Haig, Tasmania . . . Issue 17 (haibun)
3) Lakshmi Iyer, autumn's . . . Issue 18 (haiku)
4) Linda Papanicoloau, stamp . . . Issue 16 (haiku)
5) Padma Rajeswari, ancestral . . . Issue 24 (haiku)
Hearty congratulations to all our poets.
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PROMPT:
28th June
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Share your haiku for the openHALL. Not limited by a prompt, let your creativity shine. Capture moments, feelings, scenes or whatever catches your eye/mind.
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Looking forward to reading your haiku.
Write on!
Gauri
#2, 4/7/24
Edited: (self edit)
flavoured tea
warming my frozen toes
with the taste of spring
Original:
flavoured tea
the taste of spring
even in winter
~ Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
Kolkata, India
Feedback always welcome
04.06.2024
#2
walking barefoot on grass the feel of dew
Kalyanee Arandhara
Assam, India
Feedback most welcome
Ku 1
3rd July
witch songs
rare northern lights
in divine ritual
always love the feedback!
on the lake
. . . . .of lonely nights
trichoptera in love
Alan Summers
UK
Revised. Thanks, Alan!
mustard seeds
the sizzling dance
before self-detonation
ORIGINAL:
mustard seeds
in hot oil, sizzling
the pan's moment of glamour
Ranu Jain, Australia
feedback welcome.