THE HAIBUN GALLERY: 13th March 2025. Lorraine Haig - Guest Editor

hosts: Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh

mentor: Lorraine Haig

A Thursday Feature

13th March 2025

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW

THE HAIBUN GALLERY  MARCH 2025   LORRAINE HAIG

Week 2.

if only I knew

you were going forever

I would have met

your dark eyes longer

with that last goodbye

André Surridge

Five pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, edited by M. Kei.

Saying goodbye is almost never easy. In this tanka we don’t know the circumstances of the parting. We don’t know the relationship of the two people. It is left to our imagination and possibly our own circumstances to form a conclusion. There is deep sadness expressed here, also longing and regret.

Write a haibun expressing the emotions you find in this tanka.

PLEASE NOTE:

1. Only two haibun per poet per prompt.

2. Share your best-polished pieces.

3. Please do not post something in a hurry or something you have just written.

    Let it simmer for a while.

4. Post your final edited version on top of your original verse.

5. Don't forget to give feedback on others' poems.

Please Note: No haibun will be picked up from here for haikuKATHA, issue 43, May 2025. See the notice below for submission details. The workshopping will continue. The workshopping at the Haibun Gallery will continue to function the way it has been since November 2021.

Please read the Announcement completely, till the end :)) If you have doubts, write to us here, on this thread. Your ONE HAIBUN Submission can be from the haibun you have posted here.

Choose your best!

We nominate your poems for Contemporary Haibun Anthology brought out by Red Moon Press and Touchstone Haibun Contest. Help us to make this new format successful.

This is your home, to create any haibun you want and share with all our poets.

Have fun!

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT from Kala: NOTICE

              NOTICE

Dear Haibuneers

Starting from March 2025, we at haikuKATHA are moving on to a new submissions format for haibun submissions. (Only for haibun, please note!)

Writers are invited to submit one unpublished haibun per submission window.

Kindly note the submissions calendar.

1-20 March, to be considered for publication in May

1-20 June, to be considered for publication in August

1-20 September, to be considered for publication in November

1-20 December, to be considered for publication in February

All accepted submissions will receive an email to confirm their acceptance by the 5th day of the publication month.

Your unpublished (only one) haibun should be sent to: https://forms.gle/xUEiiDR9wd2dgqtR9 only during the submission period. 

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The Haibun Gallery continues as is.

We will be having editors and prompts, and your sharing…