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HAIKUsutradhar: 26th July 2024


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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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

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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


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Thanks a lot Alan - I will take your suggestion! A revision coming up! Really appreciate your time and attention!

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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


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Dear Kavita,


Ah, ha! Wonderful to learn of a butterfly I did not know before:


Delias eucharis, the common Jezebel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delias_eucharis


or was it


Delias descombesi, the red-spot jezebel

https://roundglasssustain.com/species/red-spot-jezebel-butterfly


shimmering shades

of the Jezebel butterfly

a clock ticks in b&w


shimmering shades

of the red-spot Jezebel

a clock ticks in b&w


etc...


kindest regards,

Alan


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Ranu Jain
Ranu Jain
Aug 01

Self-edited


old soap bar

on the new, in rotation

mother's green bath


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old soap bar

on the new, rotating

mother's green bath


Ranu Jain, Australia

Feedback welcome.


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windblown, a crocus

expands into the debris

first quarter moon


Alan Summers

UK

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Thank you!

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#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

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Love the revision!

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