Since March 2016, I have been thinking about a new
concept of writing a combination of ‘haiku and tanka’ (hainka) .I had coined the genre as “HAINKA”, precisely on the day 21st
March 2016 and I had written about this new genre in my personal diary.
Recently I happened to revisit my old diary. The Hainka may be composed in such a way that
the fragment of the haiku will be the pivot line (kakekatoba) of the following tanka. It can be composed either by the poet himself or in
collaboration. The “Hainka” can portray
a broader coherency of the images keeping in view the aspect of ‘link and shift’
within the framework of the combined poem.
Hainka:
melting
snow
sharing
warmth
each
other
under sunshine
kids clap together
melting snow
unfolding the secret
gathers smiles on smiles
**** **** ****
cloud
patches
a mole on the moon
and on her face
gust of breeze
unlocks her braided hair
cloud patches
descend as achromatic drops
erasing her floating thoughts
**** **** ****
I received an e-mail
from my much-revered poet friend, Hidenori
Hiruta, Editor, Akita International Haiku Network, Japan. Thank you, Hidenori,
for your inspiration and interest.
Dear Mr.
Pravat Kumar Padhy,
Thank
you very much for your exciting e-mail.
I
respect you for your new concept, which will be influential among poets in the
world……..
And I
hope that you will have finished writing about 50 hainka, which will be shared
with our readers with my Japanese translations.
Best
regards,
Hidenori
Hiruta
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