TANKA TAKE HOME - 11 December 2024 | artist of the month - Prakash Thombre

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury

Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! artist of the month: Prakash Thombre

11th December 2024

Prakash Thombre's ink sketch and the short note: A conversation with a close friend over coffee is like a quiet symphony of souls. In the warmth of a shared cup, the world slows down, and the essence of human connection reveals itself. Words flow effortlessly, like steam rising from the coffee, carrying with them the weight of unspoken emotions, dreams, and fears. It’s not just about what is said but about the silence that speaks between the sips, the knowing glances, the shared history. In these moments, time ceases to be linear, and the conversation becomes a reflection of the deeper rhythms of life—an exchange that transcends mere words, leaving both hearts a little lighter, a little more attuned to the quiet beauty of friendship.

The challenge for this week:

Take your readers on the journey of discovery. Talk about companionship, a friendship that has deepened over the years—tell us all about this and more!

Give this idea some thought and share your tanka and tanka-prose here. Keep your senses open, observe things that happen around you and write.

You can post tanka and tanka-prose outside this theme too.

An essay on how to write tanka: Tanka Flights

PLEASE NOTE: 1. Post only one poem at a time. 2. Only two tanka and two tanka-prose per poet per prompt. Tanka art of course if you want to.

3. Share your best-polished pieces. 4. Please do not post something in a hurry or something you have just written. Let it simmer for a while. 5. Post your final edited version on top of your original verse. 6. Don't forget to give feedback on others' poems. We are delighted to open the comment thread for you to share your unpublished tanka and tanka-prose (within 300 words) to be considered for inclusion in the haikuKATHA monthly magazine.