writeALONG! 27 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Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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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‘Finally will it not be enough,

after much living, after

much love, after much dying

of those you have loved,

to sit on the porch near sundown

with your eyes simply open,

watching the wind shape the clouds

into the shapes of clouds’?

From A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (1999) by American writer Wendell Berry.

I sourced this from an email to me. ‘Cloud-a-Day’ from The Cloud Appreciation Society.

What inspiration do you find here to craft your own haiku?