A TUESDAY FEATURE
hosts: Muskaan Ahuja, Lakshmi Iyer
guest editor: Vandana Parashar
Please note:
Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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 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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In his essay "Haiku Becoming", Cor van den Heuvel has quoted Professor Harold G. Henderson who once wrote, in effect, that haiku in English would beçome whatever the haiku poets make it and thus implying that haiku is a growing, living thing. He laments yet there always seem to be some people who want to put living things in cages, or bonsai pots.
Do you agree with Prof Henderson that haiku should evolve and encourage experimentation or do you think that we should stick to the traditions and not deviate from what was originally propounded by the masters?