A TUESDAY FEATURE
hosts: Muskaan Ahuja, Lakshmi Iyer
guest editor: Ajaya Mahala
The OUCH! moment
An "aha moment" is a much-used term in haiku parlance. There is nothing like an ouch moment in the haiku Jargon. Is the latter simply an antithesis?
bone density ...
a branch crumbles
after the forest fire
-- Kala Ramesh
Kala's juxtaposition of outer world ( crumbling burnt branches) with the inner world ( the fear of breaking brittle bones in osteoporosis) elicits an "ouch". Her haiku illustrates the fact that the haiku moment need not be pleasant and soothing to the senses always. There may be moments which are piquant, harsh, fearful , hateful resulting from morphing and blending our senses in a variety of ways.
his last minutes ...
a line of ants ready
for the forage
-- Suchitra Rath
We have our own encounters with ouch moments. Can we enlist them ?
It will be nice if some instance manifests itself through a low-calorie micropoem.