stringing a garland

I rearrange my thoughts

season wise

 

Frogpond, 44:3 Autumn 2021 Ed. Tom Sacramona)

 

 the dinosaurs  we  have come a long way

 MahMight Journal, October 2021 (Ed. Alan Summers)

Statement:

Monoku is an interesting poetic form of release of compressed expression in brevity and creating a room to unfold the expanded meaning of it for the readers.

Dinosaurs used to walk on our planet 65 million years ago. The huge asteroid impact triggered the extinction of dinosaurs after walking on the Earth for about 165 million years.

The ku expands the vertical axis exploring the geological history. It corroborates the evolution history of human beings and the pragmatic scientific visualization on the stretch of the time plane.

My favourite haiku by Neena Singh:

quiet mourners

a half-eaten peach
on the table

-Neena Singh

is/let 12.2.2021

Comment:

Neena Singh is a promising haiku poet with the reflection of originality and integrity in her writings. The ku creates an emotional resonance through the image ‘quiet mourners’: the split of time for the life becoming lifeless. It juxtaposes an image of heavenly departure expressed through the word phrase ‘a half-eaten peach’. Perhaps the poet narrates the incidence with a seasonal reference to autumn during the prevailing pandemic time.

It reminds me of Ezra Pound’s observation, “An “Image” is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time….. It is the presentation of such a “complex” instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest works of art.”

The Quote:

From: Waiting for Godot:

“For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

― Samuel Beckett, ‘Waiting For Godot’.

From: Withnail and I:

Uncle Monty:

“There can be no true beauty without decay.”

Pravat Kumar Padhy

http://pkpadhy.blogspot.com

Editor: Haibun, Haiga and Visual Haiku, “Under the Basho”

Panelist: The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Poem Awards

https://mahmighthaikujournal.blogspot.com/2021/10/pravat-kumar-padhy-is-walking-with.html

 Letter case

There has been a special charm sitting with my granddaughter and teaching her the English alphabet. So nice to hear her broken accent, what comes after ‘A’ and what before ‘Z’.

I ask her to write her name. She smiles and pens with concentration her name as ‘aditRI’.

It takes me back to the history of the evolution of language. With time the tree drops its ripe fruits wishing the chain to continue from the tiny seeds.

clock  echoes the repetition of time

Drifting the Sands Haibun, Issue 11, 2021 (Guest Editor: Diana Webb)

https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/09/2021/letter-case/