hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury
Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! artist of the month: Prakash Thombre
18th December 2024
Prakash Thombre's experimental illustration in ink.
Prakash Thombre says: The Waiting…a timeless limbo where anticipation and uncertainty intertwine, holding hopes and dreams suspended
The challenge for this week:
Isn't life about waiting... waiting for things to happen or not to happen?
The waiting can kill us at times.
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We are delighted to open the comment thread for you to share your unpublished tanka and tanka-prose (within 300 words) to be considered for inclusion in the haikuKATHA monthly magazine.
#2
21/12/2024
Feedback appreciated 🙏🏻
many years
all these people
random gaps in between
doesn’t life feel like
a poorly formatted page?
21/12/24 #2
footsteps echo
down the frozen street
I walk slowly
this heaviness feels
older than the stars
C.X. Turner, UK
(feedback welcome)
#2 20/12
on the branch a cocoon
a butterfly will emerge soon
I wait patiently
for the dawn to break
after a dark night
Fatma Zohra Habis/ Algeria
Feedback welcome 🌺
I wait
and wait
for things to happen ...
a raven
perched on a lamppost
Kala Ramesh #1
Feedback welcome
summer spent
in the company
of ancestors—
I become another ghost
among the gravestones
Linda Papanicolaou, US