Chie:Chie Chilli Umebayashi :
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful art!!!
Saying thank You, Dalvir Gill :
I'm glad you liked some. some aren't even staunch haiku, but they do it for me.
Body-soul... they are counterparts, none can overcome the other,
especially in Haiku if we killed her soul and kept the corpse
well-polished and even with added make-up, that would be an even dirtier
picture.
I know how much you rue over the fact that haizen
today have drifted away from Classical Japanese Haiku, we can't do
anything other than channelizing this energy into saving the soul of
Haiku, than "Trying to agree on one Fixed Form of Haiku"
We already have over thousand groups in NAmerica...everyone with their
definite thinking about Haiku.....then some groups split, first into
sub-groups - within the group - and then into new groups. I like Ron
Kleiman's definition, "Anything in three lines". if those three lines
are good they will survive....if them are a haiku, we will be left with a
good haiku added to the universal psyche, if it is not a haiku we are
left with a good small poem/quip/joke/anecdote/story, or whatever the down-place it was, added to that psyche.
Now we are ending with endless discussions and no good haiku, the good
haiku being produced today would be lost in this fish-market.
"Do we
need to write any new ones, if a handful of Stories or Koans are enough
to meditate on, people don't add to the classics," Someone thought like
that and now when we reflect on a haiku by Basho, we don't even create a
dialogue with the haiku, or Haiku or Basho, we start by evaluating the
haiku based on our own understanding of Haiku, based on our
understanding of a book/s, Group/s understanding of Haiku.
Haiku can be written, but more importantly read, only, by a non-judgmental mind.
We have studied hard to make strong judgements :))
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