A FRIDAY FEATURE
Host: Gauri Dixit
Prompter for August: Keith Evetts
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 Only post unpublished verses --- nothing that has appeared in peer-reviewed or edited journals, anthologies, your webpage, social media, etc.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:
9th August
Keith Evetts
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Today's prompt for the week is luck, bad or good, and how belief (or superstition) arises.
Try to avoid the well-worn, borrowed themes and clichés that are routinely trotted out in response to prompts. Unless you can better the many verses that went before. Draw on your direct personal experiences where possible, and if there's a fresh way you can present your observations within the spirit of haiku, so much the better. Find your own voice.
some while
after the rain dance
...it rains
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Looking forward to reading your haiku.
Write on! Gauri
Revision - revised placement of text
#1
Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
(My own photo)
Original
Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
#2
wealth attraction
smoke from eight bay leaves
with infinity signs
Milan Rajkumar
India
Feedback welcome
#2
horseshoe
even the fog enhances
falls-view
Biswajit Mishra
Canada
Note: I know there is another "horseshoe" poem here but I thought this was different. I hope this is okay.
15th August 2024
#2 feedback welcome
Revised (self):
manglik groom
faded red
of the tomato chutney
Amoolya Kamalnath
India
Revised (thanks, Biswajit and Kanji):
shifting risk
the manglik groom marries
a tree bride
Amoolya Kamalnath
India
Original:
mute witness...
the manglik* groom marries
a plantain tree
Amoolya Kamalnath
India
*Manglik Dosha, (Mangal Dosha), is considered inauspicious, especially in matters of marriage. It is believed that if he/she marries an individual without this dosha, then there are chances of separation or even death.
The remedy is to tie a mangalsutra on a plantain tree as if the groom married the tree first. Then the tree is hacked to denote the demise of the first wife.
15.08.2024
#2
Self edit
13th born
crossing fingers for all
to go right
Kalyanee Arandhara
Assam, India
Feedback most welcome
Original:
13th born —
crossing fingers to
all go right
Kalyanee Arandhara
Assam, India
Feedback most welcome