haikaiTALKS: ONE-LINE HAIKU - a saturday gathering_under the banyan tree
host: Kala Ramesh
29th April 2023
I have a new request and a suggestion to make.
From now on - you will take a one-line ku and read and internalise it. Then tell your readers how you understood it. For your own poems: Only two one-line ku per week, per prompt, per poet.
First post: When you post, you'll make your first post as a comment on anyone one-line, which is posted as an example.
You'll give your reason/s why you like it or why you don't like it. Whether you understand it or not. Second post: This will be your one-line ku.
Please give your feedback on others' commentary and poems too. _()_
Sample poems:
now in his every childhood snapshot the face of sudden death
Alice Wanderer
Bones journal for the short verse no. 25 April 2023
but the sit of sun behind her back
Elmedin Kadric
Bones journal for the short verse no. 24 October 2022
butterfly passing through particles of me
Beate Conrad
Bones journal for the short verse no. 24 October 2022
Have fun!
Continue. Agree with Alan and Keith. I wonder if you could arrange a week about. Hence, one week you put one liners up, the second week 3 liners or duostitch and the third week, we bring one to the table with our commentary.
Do you guys want this feature to continue or should we give it a 2-month break?
Please air your opinions. We'll go by the majority votes!
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chasing the note e(xc)lusive richness
now in his every childhood snapshot the face of sudden death
This is so poignant... Either this person died young, or suddenly. Or there's someone with this child in all his photos (mother? twin? another sibling?) who died young.
#2 haiku
epstein playbook culture the glint of a camera goes on holiday
Alan Summers
Not an easy subject, but as we know, haiku grew up, in Japan, when haiku poets stood up and against their country entering WWII.
'The banality of evil' remains a puzzle. Institutions often revere and protect people within their organisations, whether police, military, political, movie culture, or large corporate institutions who do immense harm to others by practicing their version of recreational relief because they are deemed an industrious person giving much to the 'company' and 'country'.
adjective:
a person working energetically and devotedly; hardworking; diligent: an industrious person.