hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury
Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! artist of the month: Prakash Thombre
25th December 2024
Prakash Thombre's ink sketch done with a handmade colapen
Let the music begin… In that moment, his mind is a perfect balance of focus and surrender—he is the architect of sound, yet a vessel for something greater. His heartbeat synchronizes with the rhythm yet to unfold, aware that with this first movement, he is about to transform silence into something transcendent.
The challenge for this week:
Timing is important in music. Be it Indian or Western music, time, intervals, and pauses are what make music memorable.
Can you correlate this to your poetry or to life itself?
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We are delighted to open the comment thread for you to share your unpublished tanka and tanka-prose (within 300 words) to be considered for inclusion in the haikuKATHA monthly magazine.
#1.......25/12/24
a metronome click
lost among autumn leaves
each fading beat
reminds me how life sways
to rhythms unseen
Nalini Shetty
India
feedback welcome
#1 - 25/12/24
Sattvic Space
We have gathered to celebrate the couple’s wedding anniversary. Most of us are old friends who have shared the love of kirtan for decades, and others are friendly strangers. Each guest arrives with a cushion in one arm and a gift in the other. After hugs and introductions, we take our seats, some on chairs, some on the mat. The wife sits to my left with her harmonium, and the husband sits to my right with his mridangam. They are both Hare Krishna devotees, so the feast will certainly be sublime. But first we chant.
AUM vibrating
through floorboards
I listen
to the unstruck sound
of my heart chakra
Kanjini Devi, NZ
feedback…
#1
25/12/2024
Feedback welcome
your breath stops
and the moment echoes in
my mind forever
like the hush that follows
a deeply moving symphony
Gauri Dixit, India
What a beautiful prompt. The sketch just flows.