A TUESDAY FEATURE
host: Muskaan Ahuja, Lakshmi Iyer
guest editor: R. Suresh Babu
Ready,Steady and Shoot !
"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
--- Robert Frank
A good haiku works like your camera. Haiku is both a science and an art. It is not just capturing an image by an act of observation or mindfulness. It is how best the image is processed in your mind or heart and what kind of resolution or pixel you are going to add so that the reader can feel the aha moment. A very important technique in photography is contrast.
This week I ask you use the technique of colour contrast in your haiku. Imagine that your Kigo is about spring or the season of spring. And spring is a season of warmth, brightness like a painter’s palette but remember the image you are going to juxtapose with your kigo should be dull and grey. It is left to your understanding and creativity to do that, and it certainly shall induce an emotion in the reader.
Use the colour contrast theory in photography to your haiku like a silhouette
of a fisherman’s boat against a bright evening sky or a Christmas tree against
the colour of fresh snow...
Thank you so much Suresh for being our guest editor for March and your thinkALONG, writeALONG and laughALONG were enjoyed by all of us.
#1, added the articles, thanks Linda.
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homecoming . . .
the silhouette of a war ship
in the rising full moon
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feedback please
nighthawks
a sliver of moon
fades into day
Edited version (thanks a lot Ms. Linda)
the shy dance
of a blue butterfly
on white daisies
Original Version
on white daisies
the shy dance of a
blue butterfly
Am not sure if I have addressed the prompt correctly. Feedbacks are welcome.
#1
for long misunderstood, women in pastels
Feedback welcome