hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury
Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! artist of the month: Prakash Thombre
25th December 2024
Prakash Thombre's ink sketch done with a handmade colapen
Let the music begin… In that moment, his mind is a perfect balance of focus and surrender—he is the architect of sound, yet a vessel for something greater. His heartbeat synchronizes with the rhythm yet to unfold, aware that with this first movement, he is about to transform silence into something transcendent.
The challenge for this week:
Timing is important in music. Be it Indian or Western music, time, intervals, and pauses are what make music memorable.
Can you correlate this to your poetry or to life itself?
Give this idea some thought and share your tanka and tanka-prose here. Keep your senses open, observe things that happen around you, and write!
You can post tanka and tanka-prose outside this theme too.
An essay on how to write tanka: Tanka Flights
PLEASE NOTE: 1. Post only one poem at a time. 2. Only two tanka and two tanka-prose per poet per prompt. Tanka art of course if you want to.
3. Share your best-polished pieces.
4. Please do not post something in a hurry or something you have just written.
Let it simmer for a while.
5. Post your final edited version on top of your original verse.
6. Don't forget to give feedback on others' poems.
We are delighted to open the comment thread for you to share your unpublished tanka and tanka-prose (within 300 words) to be considered for inclusion in the haikuKATHA monthly magazine.
31/12/24 #2
a child waits
at the frosted window ---
each moment
between snowflakes
softening the world
C.X. Turner, UK
(feedback welcome)
#1
Sandip Chauhan, USA feedback welcome
#1 31/12/24
another year
passes, giving way
to a new
the heart continues
its old wordless poem
Firdaus Parvez, India
Feedback welcome :)
#1
Feedback welcome
a new cycle begins
with the ending of the year
how strange ...
that one day I too will die
while yet learning how to live
Suraja Menon Roychowdhury, USA
#2, 31/12
last day of the year . . .
I quickly make my menu
of plum cup cakes,
tapioca wafers and a hot cup
of filter coffee
Lakshmi Iyer, India
Feedback welcome