A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Gauri Dixit
Prompter for July: Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
openHALL is back!
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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
Our poets in RED MOON ANTHOLOGY 2024:
1) Susan Burch, vegetables, Issue 19 (haibun)
2) Lorraine Haig, Tasmania . . . Issue 17 (haibun)
3) Lakshmi Iyer, autumn's . . . Issue 18 (haiku)
4) Linda Papanicoloau, stamp . . . Issue 16 (haiku)
5) Padma Rajeswari, ancestral . . . Issue 24 (haiku)
Hearty congratulations to all our poets.
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PROMPT:
26th July
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
openHALL is back for this week!
Share your best cut and floor your editors!! Give us fresh and original poems, you can do it!
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Looking forward to reading your haiku.
Write on! Gauri
2#
Revised - thanks so much Alan
rain-wash …
all of the green palette
in one tree
First version
rain-wash…
in one tree
all of green palette
Kavita Ratna
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Feedback most welcome
1 #
Revised: Thank you Alan
shimmering shades
of Jezebel
a clock ticks in b&w
First version
shimmering shades
of a butterfly
clock ticks in black and white
Kavita Ratna
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Feedback most welcome
Self-edited
old soap bar
on the new, in rotation
mother's green bath
#1
old soap bar
on the new, rotating
mother's green bath
Ranu Jain, Australia
Feedback welcome.
#2
windblown, a crocus
expands into the debris
first quarter moon
Alan Summers
UK
#2 Revised: thank you, Alan 🙏
rippling stream we dance hand in hand Sandip Chauhan, USA ^^^ hand in hand
we dance without music
rippling stream Sandip Chauhan, USA feedback welcome