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
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