thinkALONG! 4 November 2025

A TUESDAY FEATURE

hosts: Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh

guest editor: C.X. Turner  

Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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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This month’s poems linger in small moments: a turning point marked by something left behind, a message carried in a dream, the season’s first harvest, and the patient humour of a snail on Mount Fuji. Each image holds more than it says, offering just enough for the reader to step in and make the rest their own.

These prompts are starting points only. Your own memories, observations, and imaginings will take them somewhere only you can go.

a bookmark

where my son

grew too old

— Chad Lee Robinson

An everyday object becomes a quiet milestone, the place where a child moved on, leaving a parent with both memory and absence. By showing rather than telling, the poet allows the reader to complete the story.

"Time is the longest distance between two places." — Tennessee Williams

Prompt: Write a haiku or senryu that captures a turning point without naming it. Let an ordinary thing, left behind or found, mark the change.