Black Bamboo Haiku Anthology, 2020
Chapter Two: The Holy Grail of Haiku
Pravat Kumar Padhy has provided an elegant
description of haiku. Pravat writes, “In all haiku writing, exploration of
lightness (karumi) and creativeness (zoko) in nature is the main aspect. How to
unveil the beauty in tiny objects and to express reverence to all are the
resonances of haiku. A unique genre indeed!” This is perfectly stated by a true
poet.
Many haikuists will one day have the
satisfaction of writing one transcendental piece, three lines and seventeen
syllables that are the Holy Grail, that resolve all koans, that lash together
the Universe from the Big Bang to the present moment. The concept of subject
and object will be pierced, overcome, and the distinction between poet and
haiku will be eliminated. Such a haiku would serve as an epitaph worthy of
Basho or Yeats.
Sound
of breaking waves:
A
spray of seawater shoots
Through
the reef’s blowhole.
Kevin McLaughlin
Pravat Kumar Padhy is a scholar suffused with
poetic vision and a feel for non-duality. His writings are a seminar of how to
write and read a haiku. All haikuists, none more than I, would benefit from a
close reading of his collection Cosmic Symphony.
neither
a pine nor a fir,
I am
a tendril
laying
on the surface
half-moon
in the sky
her
body veiled in mixed
colours
of clouds
it is
tiny
because
it nests with care
the
mightiest in it
creation
is mystical
vast
value of life
compressed
in a seed
Pravat Kumar Padhy
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