haikaiTALKS: ONE-LINE HAIKU - a saturday gathering_under the banyan tree
host: Richa Sharma
25th March 2023
First Line
In the first post, Alan Summers mentioned: “Whether we write 3-line or 1-line haiku or even haibun etc..., the written line is such an important part of a writer's armoury.”
So true!
A single line is the basic unit of all forms. The line is the very instrument through which the thought is expressed, giving us a self. The very self that separates us from others. Did you ever feel the “tension” in reading a line? A line is where perception happens. There is not just movement, but also stillness. ¹
Robert Lowell said, “It's much easier to write a good poem than a good line.”
What makes you pen the first line?
The following article by Alan Summers was published in December 2016.
Travelling the single line of haiku - one line haiku / monoku / monostich
You can also view and listen to Alan explaining the following amazing 1-line haiku:
soonlight it switches the night snowfell
lost & found the boy in the bedroom jumble sale (posted at Triveni)
the bell jar still sings Sylvia Plath
nightfall the key turns into a blackbird
I liked another one-line haiku by Alan
sun off stubble a train in its landscape
Alan Summers
otata 4 ed. John Martone
(April 2016)
I hope you are enjoying the magic of one-line poems. Your feedback is truly appreciated.
Source
1.
Hass, Robert. A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry. HarperCollins, 2017. Print.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Richa