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Our FIRST VIDEO goes LIVE! THE COSMIC WHEEL
A rengay written by Kala Ramesh, Teji Sethi and Lakshmi Iyer
Produced and directed by Masood Hussain
Music by Rakesh Chaurasia
This is the link for the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnxFP5yxk4
The Cosmic Wheel
A short film produced and created by Masood Hussain, for Inner Soul Films
Music by Pandit Rakesh Chaurasia
Poets: Kala Ramesh, Teji Sethi and Lakshmi Iyer
The Cosmic Wheel
temple in ruins ...
the carved wooden door
still stands
a wave tossed log
the journey to somewhere
moonlight
on weathered rocks ...
the memories of war
an owl’s hoot unveils
the night’s stillness
the half-closed eyes
of a bronze Buddha —
i learn to let go
the vast sky lightens up
with silence from within
...
Poets in the order their verses appear:
Kala Ramesh – vs 1 & 4
Teji Sethi – vs 2 & 5
Lakshmi Iyer – vs 3 & 6
…
The Cosmic Wheel
The concept of viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity is deeply ingrained in cosmology. In this rengay the verses are held together by the elusive concept of wabi-sabi. The carved wooden door of a ruined temple brings out the passage of time and beauty in impermanence — sabi, that takes to wabi — melancholy and tranquillity in a single verse by the wave - tossed log. The third verse again illustrates wabi-sabi by weathered rocks under the reflection of the moon. The fourth verse shifts from the upper verses and stares into the readers' mind - stark and naked. It brings out the reality that is succeeded by the human dilemma of letting go and holding on in the fifth verse. The final verse departs from the outside world into the depths of the mind and rises to the cosmic truth.
Rengay is a six-verse linked thematic form of collaborative poetry. Garry Gay invented it in August of 1992. The main goal of rengay is to have a theme that unifies all six verses. For three people the pattern is A-3, B-2, C-3, A-2, B-3, C-2, a form that also achieves balance among the three contributors. The theme of rengay can take many forms, limited only by the imagination of the poets, and serves to benefit readers as a clothesline upon which each of the verses are pinned.
(source: Haikupaedia)
Kala Ramesh, Teji Sethi and Lakshmi Iyer belong to Triveni Haikai India — an organisation that promotes and nurtures Japanese short-form poetry.
Write-up by Teji Sethi