Naviar Lab Contributions 2022

the edge of the world
– the road vanishes into
a curtain of mist

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in or Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 9th February 2022

haiku by Raymond Cobley https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley

picture by Miriam Espacio https://unsplash.com/@miriamespacio

Flat Edge [naviarhaiku422 - the edge of the world]

scattering ginkgo leaves
faint sound from the wind
far away

A student of Takahama Kyoshi, Kenji Fusei was a haiku poet who became known under the pen name Tomiyasu Fusei. He was a member of the Hototogisu Haiku Group and founded the Haiku Association of Tokyo University.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 16th February 2022

haiku by Fūsei Tomiyasu https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/12/tomiyasu-fusei.html

picture by Nadiia Ploshchenko https://www.instagram.com/still_loony/

Ginkgo [naviarhaiku423 - scattering ginkgo leaves]

oftly-spun
cherry blossom dream
fends off the dark

C.X.Turner (she/her) is a poet and registered social care professional living in the UK. She loves the brevity of Japanese short-form poetry and the fluidity of free verse. Writing daily and published in a range of Anthologies and Journals, you can find her on Twitter @lover__poetic.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 11th May 2022

haiku by C.X.Turner https://twitter.com/lover__poetic

picture by Majid Rangraz https://unsplash.com/@majidrangraz

Spinning [naviarhaiku435 - softly-spun]

naviarhaiku450 – A mountain village
A mountain village
under the piled-up snow
the sound of water.

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 24th August 2022

haiku by Masaoka Shiki https://mypoeticside.com/poets/masaoka-shiki-poems

picture by Bryan Rodriguez https://unsplash.com/@yosoybrod

Piled-up Village [naviarhaiku450 - A Mountain Village]

As a Nashville-born transplant to Rochester, New York, Taylor Wray has found short-form poetry to be the perfect antidote to the long, cold winters. Taylor is the author of two collections of haiku and senryū: WAITING FOR THE MOON and SINKING AND RESURFACING (both from Inspirebytes Omni Media).

For more of Taylor’s poetry, follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at @inthreelines, or visit https://linktr.ee/inthreelines.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st August 2022

haiku by Taylor Wray https://linktr.ee/inthreelines.

picture by Jakub Kriz https://unsplash.com/@jakubkriz\

Dream light [naviarhaiku451 - first light]

The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
Ryōkan Taigu was a Japanese poet and calligrapher who lived during the Edo period. A Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit, he spent most of his time writing poetry, calligraphy, and communing with nature. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 21st September 2022

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://allpoetry.com/Taigu-Ryokan

picture by Corsin Taisch https://unsplash.com/@cors123

The thief's behind [naviarhaiku454 - The thief left it behind]

the bracing east wind
cold as a nordic summer;
kicking up white sand

Colin Myles is the author of three haiku poetry collections on Amazon: Scarlet Skyline, Haiku Moments and The Barren Wind. You can find out more about him on his website, Twitter and Instagram pages.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 12th October 2022

haiku by Colin Myles https://twitter.com/colinmyles

picture by Mihail Macri https://unsplash.com/@macrimihail

Wind with Braces [naviarhaiku457 - the bracing east wind]

A drummer and a thief

25 years of drumming experience, interested in on-line projects to collaborate.
Percussion, electronic drum programming, acoustic drums.

Naviar Lab Contributions 2022

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