HAIKUsutradhar . weekly prompts
A FRIDAY FEATURE
Lev Hart becomes the MENTOR for HAIKUsutradhar from 21 November 2022. Thank you.
hosts: Akila G. & Shreya Narang
month of May: Subir Ningthouja
Picture prompts
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https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/celebration Poems selected for haikuKATHA - Issue 18 is up at CELEBRATION! Check it out! The issue goes LIVE on . . . yes! You got it right!! On 22nd April.
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founder/managing editor: Kala Ramesh
associate editors:
Ashish Narain
Firdaus Parvez Hemapriya Chellappan
Priti Aisola Reid Hepworth Sanjuktaa Asopa
Shalini Pattabiraman
Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar
Haiku, senryu and haiga/shahai (photo haiku) posted here on this thread will be picked up for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal - haikuKATHA At the moment we are not looking at found poetry.
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Associate Editors, Madhuri Pillai and Akila G. are stepping down for personal reasons. We wish them the very best.
Associate Editors, K. Ramesh and Shobhana Kumar stepped down earlier in the year for personal reasons.
A huge thank you to all four beautiful poets.
Associate Editors, Reid Hepworth (from Oct 2022), Sanjuktaa Asopa (from 15 October 2022) and Hemapriya Chellappan (from Dec 2022) will be joining us.
A huge welcome to all these three lovely poets.
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For some more exciting news! CHECK THESE FORUMS ...
Tanka, kyoka and tanka-prose to be posted on TANKA TAKE HOME
and Haibun to be posted on THE HAIBUN GALLERY
It will help you tremendously if you learn to comment on 'triveni spotlight'
'open sky :: SAMVAAD' and 'thinkALONG'
Such good poems are posted.
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The poems you post will also be considered for the haikuKATHA Monthly Journal each month.
Due to a sudden increase in activity, here are some quick guidelines, for HAIKUsutradhar:
1. From September 2022 onwards only 3 haiku (numbered 1, 2 & 3) per week/per prompt are to be posted on HAIKUsutradhar. 2. Please do not post two poems in one day /24 hours ... just one and in total only 3 poems per week from Friday to Friday.
2. For each poem you share, please comment on ONE other poem which isn't yours!
3. Post only your unpublished, original poems.
4. If poets have NOT ASKED for FEEDBACK, please don't give.
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Post your best haiku and let's have each issue with your best work.
Poems previously published on your webpage or social media will be accepted.
Poems previously published in peer-reviewed or edited journals or anthologies and contest winners that were published elsewhere will not be accepted.
4. IMPORTANT: if any member provides feedback on the poem in the comment section, the poet must decide on the final version and post it on top of the original version.
Or else the original unedited version on your thread will be picked up by us.
On your comment thread, you need to post your revised final version (if you have one!)
Edited version: Your final version of the poem goes first, so it will be easy for our team to consider that for the haikuKATHA journal.
Original version: Your first version of the poem remains - under your final version. The way it is shown here.
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The Prompt
What do you make out of pictures without words? Does it mean it does not have a story? Perhaps, it would serve like the semi-circle of haiku waiting for you to write your own story on it, for it! This month we offer you photographs with subtle textures and almost mono-elemental! Maybe just the thing to link and shift to your own world where you draw your verses. Bring them here!
Drama of lights
unaffected
by market fluctuations
golden dawn
(feedback welcome)
#1. 11.05.2023
Final:
passing clouds
our fingers paint
a foggy window
Other version:
clouds guessing shapes on my window
(Feedback welcome)
Thanks, Lev:
twilight at dawn
a frog leaving
circles
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twilight at dawn
a frog leaving circles in water
#2 Feedback most welcome. In Indian thought, we have two twilights - morning and evening - non-dual, for it's neither day nor night/night nor day.
ku #3
11/5/23
my shadow self
afraid
to step into the light
Feedback always welcome
Ku# 3
11 May
shrill langur calls
piercing jungle twilight
tiger on prowl
look forward to your feedback. Thank you