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HAIKUsutradhar : 10th January 2025

Writer: GauriGauri

A FRIDAY FEATURE


Host: Gauri Dixit

Prompter for January: Prakash Thombre


OUR MISSION

1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt.

2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Post a maximum of two verses per week, from Friday to Friday, numbered 1 & 2. Post only one haiku in a day, in 24 hours.

2. Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.

3. Only post original verses.

4. For each poem you post, comment on one other person’s poem.

5. Give feedback only to those poets who have requested it.

6. Do not post a variety of drafts, along with a request for readers to choose which they like most. Only one poem is to appear in each original post.

7. Post each revision, if you have any, above the original. The top version will be your submission to haikuKATHA. Do not delete the original post.

8. Do not submit found poetry or split sequences.

9. Do not post photos, except for haiga.


10. haikuKATHA will only consider haiga that showcase original artwork or photos. Post details re: the source of the visual image. If you team up with an artist or photographer, make sure that it’s their original work and that they are not restricted by other publications to share it. We won't be responsible for any copyright issues.


11. Put your name, followed by your country, below each poem, even after revisions.


Poems that do not follow the guidelines may be deleted.

Founder/Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Monthly Journal: Kala Ramesh

Associate Editors: Ashish Narain Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar

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PROMPT:

10th January

Prakash Thombre


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Ink sketch by Prakash Thombre of an elderly violinist…years may have slowed his hands, but his passion still fights to be heard in every note.


Echoes of the past

Aren't we all are echoes of our own past, seemingly same as the last echo but fading nevertheless, fading over time and eventually vanishing. This week share your haiku inspired by the sketch.

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Looking forward to reading your haiku.

Write on! Gauri

296 comentários


Marion Clarke
26 de jan.

Paris backstreet

from an upstairs window

our first duet


Marion Clarke

Northern Ireland


Feedback welcome

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
16 de jan.

#2, 16/01


broken fiddle —

a baby spider climbs up

on the octaves


Lakshmi Iyer, India

Feedback welcome

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Marion Clarke
26 de jan.
Respondendo a

Hi Lakshmi, a sweet image! Perhaps it could be shortened for even more impact?


broken fiddle —

a tiny spider climbs

the octaves


marion


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#2 16/01


echo

from sunrise over the city

silent symphony


Fatma Zohra Habis/Algeria


Feedback welcome 🌹


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Marion Clarke
26 de jan.
Respondendo a

This is quite abstract, Fatma. Is it a memory of sunrise over a particular city? Perhaps “echo of Algiers” And why a silent symphony? Perhaps a “symphony in orange/gold”?


But let’s see if you have receive other feedback—perhaps it’s just because it’s 8am here and I’m not quite awake! 🙂


marion

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mona bedi
mona bedi
16 de jan.

Post #2

16.1.25


self edit :


the busker plays

an yesteryear song

separation moon


the busker plays an old song separation moon


Mona Bedi

India


Feedback appreciated:)

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Marion Clarke
26 de jan.
Respondendo a

Nice depiction of nostalgia, Mona. I really loke your use of “yesteryear” wonder if a slight tweak would work for you—purely for reasons of sound?


the busker plays

a song from yesteryear

separation moon


marion

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Kalyanee
Kalyanee
15 de jan.

15.01.2025

#2

branches bow

at the ripeness of plums

aunt's orchard


Kalyanee Arandhara

Assam, India


Feedback most welcome

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Marion Clarke
26 de jan.
Respondendo a

I would change the image in L3 , Kalyanee, since “orchard” is already described in bowing branches and ripe plums. You could introduce another sense.


marion


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