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Benn DeMoleNIght Temple [naviarhaiku508]Inspired by the haiku:
Deep, dark Summer night
A sudden shaft of moonlight
Blesses the temple
by: John Hinks
https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
Image extracted from one by: Joe Hu
https://unsplash.com/photos/ZXaCeb7rwfE
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku2023-10-0804 min
TheOxfordAmbientCollective::::>>>>::Moonlight Discord::::::Naviar Haiku 508My contribution to Naviar Records Haiku Challenge 508.
Haiku by John Hinks
Deep, dark summer night
A Sudden shatt of moonlight
Blesses the temple
stepping stones2023-09-2906 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Midflight (navku462)Icarus
the pelican hovers
mid flight
haiku by Kimberly A. Horning2022-11-1302 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)The Cusp (navku460)Frozen dew gleams
Spiderwebs made stark
The cusp of winter
David Pattison2022-10-3103 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)moon left behind in window (navku454)The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.
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moon left
behind in
window
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)I saw a buddha! (navku453)falling leaves
deep in the forest
I see a buddha
A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.2022-09-0903 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Last Dance Of Red Sunlight (navku444)Last Dance Of Red Sunlight (navku444) by john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)2022-07-1105 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Microbiota Hoedown (navku441)Microbiota
constitute consciousness
we’re never alone
haiku by Jason Richardson2022-06-1803 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Summit in Clouds (navku440)the sixth month –
with clouds laid on its summit
Mount-Arashi
Matsuo Basho (1644 – 1694)
In his late twenties, Basho moved to Edo (now Tokyo), where he joined the local active poetry community: he started writing under the name Basho after he received a basho tree from one of his students. Basho wrote in a particular form called Haibun, a fusion of haiku and prose: his most famous haibun collection is The Narrow Road to the Interior.2022-06-1503 min
El Wud Experimental Ambient ProjectExistential Geometries (naviarhaiku439)Inspired by this haiku:
Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze
The author John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge.
Haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
Picture by Amanda Mocci https://unsplash.com/@amandamocci
Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/2022-06-0205 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)of rains (navku428)end of rains
sunny deep blue sky-
winter is yet away
Aju Mukhopadhyay is a bilingual poet, author and critic who regularly contributes to International Journals and Websites on varied subjects. Besides many poetry and other awards, he has received Albert Camus Centenary Writing Award, Laureate Award in Best Author category (Non-Fiction) and Glory of India Award (Indian Achievers’ Forum).2022-03-2202 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Sunset on Snow (navku424)sunset in snow
is like a letter read
many times
Ryuta Iida (1920 – 2007) was the son of the haiku poet Dakotsu Iida. Initially a rice farmer, Ryuta published his first haiku volume, “One hundred noodles”, in 1954.2022-02-2105 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Murder by Moonlight (navku418)A machine gun,
the low moon,
round and resounding.
Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.
This haiku is included in The Kobe Hotel, a collection that depicts the author’s wartime experiences in Kobe, the str...2022-01-1205 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Main Steet Snow Globe (navku413)Star-like, distant lights
Twinkle erratically –
Cold December night
John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).2021-12-0503 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)blue mist attitude (navku412)even the fields
have a morning attitude
blue mist
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Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Waves from the Dark (navku409)Darkness,
Wet with
The sound of the waves
A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.2021-11-1005 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)first winter rain (navku406)first winter rain –
a nameless mountain
quaintly
Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.2021-10-1805 min
El Wud Experimental Ambient ProjectFor a dissolved rainbow (naviarhaiku405)Inspired by this haiku written by John Hinks, a prolific and talented composer.
A day of rainbows
As Summer gives way to the
Damp days of Autumn
haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-405-a-day-of-rainbows-as2021-10-1004 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)O Long River Thru Snowy Plain (navku375)March 12, 2021.
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The long, long river
A single line
On the snowy plain
Nozawa Bonchō was a haikai poet and disciple of Basho who worked as a doctor in Kyoto. Later in life Bonchō distanced himself from Basho’s school and was imprisoned for a crime. He died in 1714.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Backwoods Buggly (navku374)Borrowing my house
from insects,
I slept
Kobayashi Issa
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march eight, twenty twenty one
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danieldiazmusicA Distant Memory (naviarhaiku366)One track of an E minor chord performed on a Fender Telecaster Guitar
Six tracks of the same chord performed on the same guitar each string recorded separately , performed with eBow.
Composed and performed by DD, January 2021
For this haiku:
naviarhaiku366⠀
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An old carousel⠀
Riding peacocks and dragons⠀
Distant memory⠀
Poem by John Hinks, aka @FlownBlue
Photo by DD (Santa Monica CA, 2007, Kodak Tri-X)
@naviar-records2021-01-0702 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)abandoned farmhouse (navku361)Dec. 3, 2020.
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abandoned farmhouse
off the snow-piled roof
gusts of ghosts
Michael Dudley (michaeljdudley.com) was born in downtown Toronto and reared in the Greater Toronto Area. He later lived and worked for 35 years in rural Southwestern Ontario. From May 2018 until June 2020 he continuously travelled. He is the father of three adults and the author of numerous poetry collections, including pilgrimage: haiku selected & new, Red Moon Press, 2017.
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danieldiazmusica chill november morning (naviarhaiku360)Piano, Synths, Bowed upright basses, filters.
Ambient electro-acoustic soundscape for this haiku:
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Magnolia in full bloom…⠀
But waking I find⠀
a chill November morning⠀
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Poem by John Hinks
Photo by DD (Paris, November 2020)
Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz
@naviar-records
@flownblue
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku⠀
Dedicated to Diego Maradona (Oct 30th 1960-Nov 25th 2020) RIP
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Light on your Feet (navku359)November 21, 2020.
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Dry sound of footsteps
Continue regularly
Close to this lamp.
~~Kakio Tomizawa was a member of the Shinko Haiku, an movement that aimed at modernizing haiku in the early 20th century.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)A Single Breeze, A Single Butterfly (navku350)sept. 17, 2020.
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Flutteringly,
Floating in the breeze,
A single butterfly.
Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.
He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Flowpath(navku349)sept. 10, 2020.
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Inspiration flows
in the least resistant path
nature makes a choice
You may know Raymond Stull for his regular music contributions to our weekly challenge as Stull, but this week he’s also the author of the haiku of the week.
“What (Ray) loves most about Naviar Haiku is the freedom to pursue an idea freely to whatever end. Sometimes the poem feels like a soundtrack and other times it evokes jazz, dubstep, rock, or an ambient piece. Sometimes it evens starts as one and ends as another.”2020-09-1104 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)gugin gugin gugin (navku341)July 19, 2020.
the main material for my piece was performed by Charlie Huang. his original performance and accompanying info can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guqin-Yangguan_Sandie.ogg
since the Naviar Haiku music project works at the intersection of tradition and innovation, i hope my contribution is seen as an extension, rather than a blasphemy, lol. (the "wind instrument" is an addition to the multi-tracked and processed guygin.)
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Kaoru kaze ya morokoshi kakete nana no o ni
A fragrant breeze
Is blowing from China
Over these seven strings
[trans. Fumiko Yamamoto]
Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese...2020-07-2102 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Burn Out Above The Cold Sea (navku340)July 14, 2020.
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All across the sky
A star has burned itself out
Above the cold sea
The author of this poem is Jirozaemon Yasuo, mostly known by his pen name Inan. Inan was headman of the village where Ryokan was born (before being replaced by Ryokan’s father) and a distant disciple of Basho.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Heavy Leaf (navku339)July 7, 2020.
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See the heavy leaf
on the silent windless day
falls of its own will.
Nozawa Bonchō was a haikai poet and disciple of Basho who worked as a doctor in Kyoto. Later in life Bonchō distanced himself from Basho’s school and was imprisoned for a crime. He died in 1714.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Moon Harvest (navku338)June 29, 2020.
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Harvest moon,
And mist creeping
Over the water.
(Tr. Robert Haas)
Another follower of Matsuo Bashô, Hattori Ransetsu was a samurai who became a monk after his master’s death. Just like the great Bashô, Ransetsu also was a frequent traveller and recorded this in his journals with haiku.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)These Fallen Flowers (navku336)June 15, 2020.
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Thought I, the fallen flowers
Are returning to their branch;
But lo! they were butterflies.
落花枝にかへると見れば胡蝶哉 守武
落花枝にかへると見れば胡ちょかな 守武
rakka eda ni / kaeru to mireba / kochō kana (6-7-5)
(translated by William George Aston)
A prolific writer of haikai, renga, and Waka, Arakida Moritake was born in 1473 and studied renga under Iio Sōgi. Late in his life, Arakida became head priest of the Inner Ise Shrine.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Of the Night (navku323)March 13, 2020.
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The rain begins to fall,
sounding like my heartbeat
of the night
Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poety after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Tall in the Withered Field (navku322)March 8, 2020.
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the sun set behind
a traveling monk
tall in the withered field
Initially a prose writer, Masaoka Shiki is considered by many the first poet of modern haiku. He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. Shiki died of tuberculosis in 1902, at the age of 34.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Kite Set Setting Sun (navku320)February 24, 2020.
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the last kite
carries the setting sun
in its wings
Aju Mukhopadhyay is an award winning poet, author and critic. He contributes different genres of literature to various journals: two of the ten books he’s published so far are of Japanese short verses: Short Verse Vast Universe and Short Verse Delight. His works have been widely anthologized and translated. He recently won the Best Author (non fiction) award at the Literoma Laureate Award.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Travels Forgotten (navku318)February 9, 2020.
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in the beach breeze
my travels forgotten…
evening cool
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haiku by Kobayashi Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Amnesia Breathing (navku317)February 4, 2020.
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not heard my breath
in years.
breathe
~~Jamie Lickfold aka sevenism
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Dark Rolls Into Infinity (navku316)January 27, 2020.
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a dark corridor
rolls into infinity
– floating particles.
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A journalist with more than a decade of experience writing for major broadcasters and national publications in the UK, Mark Morris runs the Twitter account Pure Land Haiku and produces music under the pseudonym Pure Land Haiku Music and Journoiz.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Buoyancy (navku314)January 10, 2020.
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Buoyantly we go
Like the wind,
Tasting water.
Taneda Santoka was a Japanese poet and mendicant Zen priest who specialised in free verse haiku. Santoka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui (1884-1976), the founder of the free-style haiku which discarded the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Pineal Boat (navku313)January 2, 2020.
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a new year begins–
before sunrise
a pine-decorated boat
Kobayashi Issa
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(Pine cones were considered symbols of fertility by Romans, Greeks, Assyrians, and Christians. Their design forms a perfect Fibonacci sequence. Pine cones have also been associated with the Third Eye, enlightenment, and the pineal gland.)
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Dooridors (navku310)12/12/19.
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One push of the door, a single step
And the corridor seems to stretch
As far as the eye can see.
Takuboku Ishikawa is best remembered for his emphatic and introspective tanka: his poems were accepted by the one of the most important tanka journals of the early 20th century, “Myojo”, when he was only 16.
Takuboku Ishikawa’s two major collections of tanka, “Ichiaku no Suna” (“A Handful of Sand”) and “Kanashiki Gangu” (“Sad Toys”), came out in 1910 and 1912. “Sad Toys” was published posthumously in June 1912, two months after he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26.
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Toward the Sea (navku309)Dec. 7, 2019.
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bitter winter wind
ends there —
sound of the sea
Ikenishi Gonsui (1650–1722) was a haiku poet from Nara who settled permanently in Kyoto in 1684. A collection of his works, entitled Ikenishi Gonsui no kenkyū, was published in 2003.
~2019-12-1003 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)too, there are light and shade (navku308)Dec. 2, 2019.
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White chrysanthemums:
in the fragrance, too, there are
light and shade
Akutagawa Ryunosuke is one of the most well-known Japanese authors of short stories: his works include Rashomon (1915), A Fool’s Life (1927) and Spinning Gears (1927). A brilliant student and avid reader, Akutagawa was also a prolific poet.
~2019-12-0206 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)See With Amazement (navku #286)June 27, 2019.
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When I gazed down the ocean,
I could see with amazement
The countless lights that shone
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Marco & "Talk-to-Transformer"
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)My Way Home (navku # 285)June 20, 2019.
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I’m on the shore of a river
on some rocky path, on a hillside
my way home
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"Jamie Lickfold aka Sevenism generated some haiku using Talk to Transformer, a neural network capable of completing texts. The results were fascinating so I chose one of those poems for this week’s challenge. Sevenism is one of the earliest participants in the Haiku challenge, as well as the first artist to publish a solo album with Naviar."2019-06-2104 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Reflecting the Light (navku279)May 10, 2019
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Ripples on water
reflecting the light of day
the breaking of day
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Jason Richardson is a Leeton-based musician and poet who’s collaborated with Naviar many times over the last few years: in 2014 his music was part of the sound installation we made for the State of Origin exhibition in London, and in 2017 we curated together the exhibition Crossing Streams in Narrandera.
Later this year Jason will be exhibiting his haiku, photographs and music as part of an exhibition at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery.
~~2019-05-1104 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Plumettes (Naviar Haiku 253)Nov. 10, 2018.
The piano man
is stingy at 3AM.
his songs drop like plum
~~ Etheridge Knight
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john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Wirefence (Naviar Haiku 252)Nov. 3, 2018.
The wire fence is tall
The lights in the prison barracks
Flick off, one by one.
Etheridge Knight was an American author, and one of the most prominent poets of the Black Arts Movement in the 20th century. While serving the U.S. Army in Korea he was wounded and as a result, the drug addiction that had begun during his service got worse. He wrote his most acclaimed book, Poems from Prison, during the eight years he spent in the Indiana State Prison for robbery.
~2018-11-0302 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Bluespaint (Naviar Haiku 248)October 3, 2018.
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Washing the ink-stone,
The Indian ink flows away
Blue, blue.
This week’s haiku is a poem by Hashimoto Takako, one of the most important voices in haiku poetry during the World War II years in Japan, together with Mitsuhashi Takajo and Ishibashi Hideno among others.
~2018-10-0404 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)...keeping me from going... (naviar haiku 247)Sept. 26 - 27, 2018.
a carpet of snow
keeping me from going close
to the ocean's edge
Now regarded as one of the most influential Japanese haiku writers of the twentieth century, Yamaguchi Seishi was an influential representative of the Hototogisu School (founded by Kyoshi, his teacher). A collection of 300 of his works entitled The Essence of Modem Haiku was published by Mangajin Inc in 1933.
*2018-09-2804 min
john e's Unnecessary Haiku Enterprises (Naviar)Applepickin' Ascension (Naviar Haiku 246)Sept. 20, 2018.
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a ladder
put against an apple tree
goes through toward the sky
Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963) was a poet of the Shōwa period and editor of the haiku magazine Shichiyō. Even though Takako studied under Seishi Yamaguchi for some time, she was the first woman among the major modern haiku poets to receive her training in haiku mainly from another woman, Hisajo.
*2018-09-2104 min
sevenismHush Descends(Naviarhaiku121)http://www.naviarrecords.com/2016/04/27/naviarhaiku121-hush-descends/
NAVIAR HAIKU
Make music inspired by a haiku poem in seven days.
Poem by: Ikjoice https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce
Picture by: John Lemieux https://www.flickr.com/photos/newdimensionfilm
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darkness & silence sampled from most recent disquiet track
sleep dream and dream logic created in nodebeat2016-05-0202 min