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This week's haiku challenge:

Stretching ahead -
the straight road,
loneliness.

A wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, Santōka was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.

Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda

Submission deadline: 7th August 2024

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Stretching ahead (naviarhaiku552)

More Angel Heart than burning fires but there you go.....



https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0666-beauty-and-the-beast/

[disquiet0666] Descent

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02/03 Oct 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

For this, I started with a very casual absently-minded piano piece using  QuNexus, Noire Felt & Bitwig. I pulled a section of this for this Naviar Haiku and another section for this week’s Disquiet Junto. I moved an audio copy of this section to Ableton Live and added a dronish patch I put together in Vital. I added some Chow Tape Model to the piano track. That’s really it. 

This original version of "Trunk, Redeclared" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 561, stars on the pond…

stars on the pond...
again the pitter-pattering
freezing drizzle

by: Tachibana Hokushi

Tachibana Hokushi, whose real name was Tachibana Genjiro, was born in Kanazawa in 1665. Hokushi was one of Basho’s most famous students at the time, and he even accompanied the great master during part of his famous journey through the narrow roads of the North, from Kanazawa to Matsuoka.

Art by Jim Lemanowicz 14 Oct 2014, Massapequa

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

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Trunk, Redeclared (naviarhaiku561)

FIRST

on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms.

As customary, the first haiku of the year is by Kobayashi Issa.

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Yosuke Ota

Corrupt blossoms_Naviarhaiku574

My submission for Naviar Haiku #574.

I really recommend listening with good headphones!

Blossoming Deception - naviarhaiku574

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