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laughALONG! 13 May

A TUESDAY FEATURE

hosts: Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh

guest editor: Lorraine Haig


Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal -- haikuKATHA, each month.


Poets are requested to post poems (haiku/senryu) that adhere to the prompts/exercises given.


Only 1 poem to be posted in 24 hours. Total 2 poems per poet are allowed each week (numbered 1,2). So, revise your poems till 'words obey your call'.


If a poet wants feedback, then the poet must mention 'feedback welcome' below each poem that is being posted.


Responses are usually a mixture of grain and chaff. The poet has to be discerning about what to take for the final version of the poem or the unedited version will be picked up for the journal.


The final version should be on top of the original version for selection.


Poetry is a serious business. Give you best attempt to feature in haikuKATHA !!

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flying saucers

when the words we hurl

aren’t enough 


-Baisali Chatterjee Dutt

 


Flying saucers may have us thinking of UFOs. The second line comes as a surprise when we realize the poet means something completely different. A saucer no less, being hurled at someone or something. What a brilliant second line.

 


Can you achieve an imaginative leap and create a moment of insight?

118 comentários


C.X. Turner
C.X. Turner
27 de mai.

27/05/25 #2


wild raspberries

you ask

if I'm still angry


C.X. Turner, UK

(feedback welcome)

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
19 de mai.

#2, revised, 20/05


tender coconut the whiteness of truth in a gulp


Lakshmi Iyer, India


19/05, original


tender coconut the whiteness of truth in that gulp


Lakshmi Iyer, India

Feedback welcome


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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
20 de mai.
Respondendo a

Ok thanks

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Jennifer Gurney
Jennifer Gurney
19 de mai.

#1 5-18-25


thirty-sixth anniversary

no celebration, just memories

eleven years since our divorce


Jennifer Gurney, US


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Alan Summers
Alan Summers
21 de mai.
Respondendo a

It feels over-explanatory without the crispness of white and negative space.


thirty-sixth anniversary

no celebration, just memories

eleven years since our divorce


versus


36th anniversary

eleven years

since our divorce


This feels closer to what Roberta Beary might write, it shows and even tells a little, though most of the explaining it to us is neatly tucked inside both white and negative space.


Or a gembun:


no celebration, just memories


36th anniversary

eleven years

since our divorce

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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
17 de mai.

kite contest

the dragon on a thread

                    swings into action


Kala Ramesh #2 Feedback welcome.

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
16 de mai.

17.05.2025

#2


cat's home

the only time

hubby meows


Kalyanee Arandhara

Assam, India


Feedback most welcome

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