laughALONG! 27 August

A TUESDAY FEATURE

hosts: Muskaan Ahuja, K.Ramesh

guest editor: Adelaide Shaw

Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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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Karumi: lightness,  A haiku with karumi has gentle humor, produces a smile or a chuckle,  rather than a full-out laugh.

Susumu Takiguchi writes:Karumirepresents the element of the common people whose plain speech and everyday activities provided an immensely rich source for humorous rendering and light-hearted diction of universal relevance.

spring rain:

a mouse is lapping

the Sumida River       

--- Issa

Wrestlers are aboard

the ferry: why has it become

stormy weather?   

--- KawahigashiHekigodo

late to the office

my desk already piled high

with zucchini             

--- Charles Trumbell

The challenge this week is to write a haiku with karumi.