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HAIKUsutradhar : 4th October 2024


A FRIDAY FEATURE


Host: Gauri Dixit

Prompter for October : Linda Papanicolaou

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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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

4th October

Linda Papanicolaou

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Preface: Ernest L Boyer (1928 —95) was an American educator who served as Chancellor of the state University of New York, United States Commissioner of Education, and President of the Carnegie Foundation. Believing that to be educated, people should understand the “connectedness of things,” he developed a list of “human commonalities”—eight universal experiences that we can all relate to, no matter what nationality, tribe, culture, or time period we associate ourselves. A full list may be found online at https://www.schoolartsroom.com/2016/04/the-best-big-ideas-boyers-human.html.


Although one item on the list is already familiar to us as haiku writers—connectedness to Nature—for our prompts this month we’ll be choosing three of the others that you may not have thought about as much. A warning though: Whereas Boyer’s Commonalities are “big ideas,” haiku is a poetry of the particular. Do approach each week’s theme by thinking past the abstract generalization to a particular instance or personal experience.


Prompt for this week: Humans express themselves and communicate with symbols: oral or written language, traffic signs, trademark logos, graffiti, hand gestures, etc. This week let different mediums of communication / ways of expression inspire your haiku.

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Looking forward to reading your haiku.

Write on! Gauri

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#1


resent texts don’t you know I speak typo


Susan Burch, USA

comments welcome

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sanjuktaa
Oct 11

Lovely thought-provoking prompt, Linda!


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#2

Second version

gym

her bottomless

smile


dipankar

India


(Feedback welcome.)


First version

her

bottomless smile

gym


dipankar

India


(Feedback welcome.)


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sanjuktaa
Oct 11
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Sorry, but 'bottomless smile' doesn't work for me. It's very difficult to make this word 'bottomless' work in any haiku context, in my view. The connection with gym also is a stretch. Could you phrase it in some other way?

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#2

11-10-2024


graffiti on rocks

proclaiming their love

hope they're happy


Padma Priya

India


feedback welcome

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Thank you so much Dipankar. Very happy that you liked it.

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
Oct 10

10.09.2024

#2


moving head

from left to right

the verdict


Kalyanee Arandhara

Assam, India


Feedback most welcome

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Very nice Kalyanee. Liked it so much.

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