haikaiTALKS: a saturday gathering! 14th December

haikaiTALKS: Music| a saturday gathering under the banyan tree

host: Lev Hart 14th November 2024

haikaiTALKS: a saturday gathering under the banyan tree

Music

Your host for haikaiTALKS: Lev Hart

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MUSIC

Kanji Dev requests, “Would you do a prompt in relation to classical composers such as Bach, Mozart, etc.? They all seem to have their own signature which may inspire certain moods in haiku.”

Our first goal this week is to write a haiku in response to Arvo Pärt’s contemporary composition, “Spiegel Im Spiegel” (“A Mirror in a Mirror”). It's a short piece. You can hear it by clicking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNcHi

What emotions does the music evoke as you listen to it? Choose a seasonal image that might evoke similar feelings in the reader. Perhaps it can serve as the haiku’s fragment. Do the feelings remind you of a particular experience? Perhaps the memory can serve as the phrase for your haiku.

For this week’s second haiku, write a verse in response to the classical composition of your choice, whether Western or Eastern. Follow the same directions and suggestions as above. In the comments section, tell us the name of the piece and provide a YouTube link.

Here’s the catch: Neither haiku can be about music, or anything related to music. That would be too easy.

Keep both haiku grounded in concrete imagery, avoiding mental reflections, statements of feeling and suchlike. Avoid stock phrases and shopworn images. Strive for originality. Remember the kigo.

“A Dictionary of Haiku Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods,” by Jane Reichhold:

https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/7fb6654a1dfd1afef97369da920530f8.pdf

indian subcontinent SAIJIKI:

https://www.trivenihaikai.in/indian-saijiki

The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words:

http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html

The World Kigo Database:

https://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/

The Yuki Teikei Haiku Season Word List:

https://yths.org/season-word-list/

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Thank you for doing this for us, Keiko and Lev

Members,

Please give your feedback on others' commentary and poems too. _()_

This is an exciting phase for haikaiTALKS! Have fun! Keep writing and commenting! _kala