A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Gauri Dixit
Prompter for January: Prakash Thombre
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.
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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:
31st January
Prakash Thombre
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
#!
08-02-25
freezing rain—
the fine filigree of snow
on trees
Padma Priya
India
feedback welcome
the palash flowers
a nightingale questions
his absence
Jahnavi Gogoi
Ontario, Canada
Note:
Palash : Flame of the forest .
#2
the old man
woken up by a crow
birthday
dipankar (দীপংকর)
India
Feedback welcome.
04.02.2025
#2
her cryptic smile
while bottling the pickle
summer solstice
Kalyanee Arandhara
Assam, India
Feedback most welcome
Poem 2 - 04/02/25
on this spring day
a fork-tailed drongo in flight
persephone & hades
Rupa Anand, New Delhi, India
feedback is welcome