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Week 5 photo prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

The week 5 photo prompt features the work of the well-known haiga poet, and editor, Lavana Kray. A photo prompt is posted each Monday until 16th March 2026. This is the second part of the Haiga as a Healing Practice feature of H4H, which looks to explore the healing potentials of haiga, a poetic form related to haiku, in dealing with illness, bereavement, estrangement, displacement, isolation and loneliness.<\/p>\n

The experience and perspective of a poet is unique and we want to showcase this singular voice. Thus, the individual photo prompt has no title or accompanying text.<\/p>\n

Take a cue from Lavana\u2019s inspirational interview<\/a> and consider how does the image distil the \u201cresidues\u201d of your experience? Does it bring to mind the yearning in William Blake\u2019s \u201cwinged life\u201d* with its lightness of joy and release or does it evoke what Thomas Hardy described as the \u201cthe sorriness underlying the grandest things\u201d?** Look inside and outside yourself Lavana urges and find that \u201csomething\u201d that will best convey what you want to say.<\/p>\n

In the Comments box below, please post no more than two original, unpublished haiku or senryu inspired by the photo on the theme of healing.<\/p>\n

Your poems in response to Lavana\u2019s evocative photos have been inspiring \u00a0and deeply moving. As we near the end of this Haiga as a Healing Practice feature of H4H, please take a moment to share your thoughts on the poems shared here. It would be such a warm gesture of connecting with other poets in a spirit of healing.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u00a0“Eternity”<\/a>, William Blake (1757-1827)
\n** Notebook entry for 19 April 1885,<\/em> Thomas Hardy (1840\u20131928)<\/p>\n

Sonam Chhoki<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about Haiku for Healing, please use the Haiku for Healing contact form on our Contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lavana Kray<\/strong> is from Romania. Over the years, she has won various prizes in haiku and tanka competitions. The World Haiku Association awarded her the title of Master Haiga Artist. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, as well as in Haiga Exhibitions organized by the World Haiku Association in Japan and Italy.\u00a0\u00a0The Laval Literary Society from Canada awarded her the Andr\u00e9-Jacob-Entrevous Prize 2023, for a literary text (haiku) combined with an artistic visual. She currently serves as haiga editor for the online journal of Japanese short forms, cattails<\/em>.\u00a0She has published five photo-haiku books, one tankart collection and a photo-haibun book.<\/p>\n

She is owner-editor of https:\/\/ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/thf-galleries-photo-haiku-of-lavana-kray\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonam Chhoki<\/strong> finds the Japanese short-form poetry resonates with her Tibetan Buddhist upbringing. She is inspired by her father, Sonam Gyamtsho, the architect of Bhutan\u2019s non-monastic modern education and by her mother, Chhoden Jangmu, who taught her: \u201cBeing a girl doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do anything.\u201d She is the principal editor, and co-editor of haibun for the online journal of Japanese short forms, cattails<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her chapbook of haibun, The Lure of the Threshold<\/em> was published in May 2021. Mapping Absences<\/em>, a collaboration of haibun, tan bun and tanka prose with Mike Montreuil was published in 2019. Another collaboration with Geethanjali Rajan: Unexpected Gift<\/em> was published in November 2021. She organised a year-long email course in 2024 for The Haiku Foundation\u2019s Haiku for Parkinson\u2019s project.<\/p>\n

Read past Haiku for Healing posts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

THF strives to maintain a safe and friendly environment for our readers and site participants. Participation in our offerings assumes respectful and appropriate behavior of all parties. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you see something you feel may violate our Code of Conduct<\/a>, please report it to the appropriate moderator or the President here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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