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haiku #604: In spring sunlight / the rows of tea bushes / ripple like waves

LIKE SOIL

dem deutschen volk

fifth date

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path
(Matsuo Bashō)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/
Komposition1078 Ensemble5

in a flash (naviarhaiku602)

19-7-2025

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
604
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

2025-07-31

In spring sunlight (Naviarhaiku 604)

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita: https://www.lucacenisi.net/2023/04/16/cinque-haiku-di-toge-morita/

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

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The pic is me and my snooker cue. I love snooker. I played a lot since I was young. Although the song name imagines us snipering a set of ideas ... Meet a proper way of snipering something without needing a rifle!

I also included reference books I am lucky to have. Mum and Dad fed us knowledge from young and I am forever grateful for those amazing seeds to want to learn the planet. It's easier to retain the drive for learning when it's seeded young in a person I guess.


The Poem

We hear you Eddie
You made lots!
Thanks for the steer
Your VS are shots
How much indifference can we take?
Not much more
For futures sake

If world is conspiracy
So is your mind
You conspire to distract yourself from your kind
You feed the beast outside and in
With warped belief
One illusion then win

Be disillusioned
Be sad with what's wrong
Foundation for freedom is found in new song
Universal love spreader
Connections in droves
We amplify clever
Not "maybe" mind cove

Einstein was right
Decide where you are
Deliver yourself the mindset of star
Intuitive tact
Discoveries known
Mould and expand them
New realm we hone

We've scoped the indifference
In sights now we fire
Love bullets for plexus
New neurons now fire
Now you're different
New normal
New known
Compassion like Christmas
Good planet be toned

Phoned home the proof
ET on the ground
Where have you been?
We nearly lost sound
But the waves will save you
Feel by Feel
Not mine, Yours
Inner pain gets repealed


Snipers on Indifference

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 11 Nov 2020 & 30 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, effects.

This original version of "Old Liver Fall” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 604: In Spring Sunlight.

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by: Tōge Morita

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 18 Nov 2018, LIRR, NY, USA

Music & art © 2018, 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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

Old Liver Fall (naviarhaiku604)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 604

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves
 

Tōge Morita (1924-2013) was a Japanese teacher and poet from Osaka. In the early 50s, he started publishing his poems in the Katsuragi 葛城 magazine, later becoming its editor-in-chief and, in 1990, its editor.

Haiku by Tōge Morita

Picture by Kyle Bushnell

Submission deadline: 6th August 2025
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Whisper fields (naviarhaiku604)

An electronic composition, original sounds created using Pure Data.

Sunlight Ripple (naviarhaiku604)

The very nature of desire is that it remains unfulfilled
- Osho
🖤
A song about existing
🖤
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/uMfXWkOORQc
🖤
lyrics
(In my dreams...)
It's a pattern
I've seen repeating
(From where you're standing)
The destruction
Is deleting
All the promise
I was holding
(From where you're standing)
And crippled
What was unfolding
I thought I wanted you
But now I see
(From where you're standing)
That's just not true
And it can't be
(I tried to meet you in my dreams)
((In my dreams))
Perceive me
From where you're standing
Judge me
I am expanding
So run away
From the brightness
This silence is
My politeness
Perceive me
From where you're standing
Judge me
I am expanding

releases August 23, 2025

Paradox of Desire

Produced and programmed by Julian Maramieri 
live at Lydda Nights 2019
Written by Mackie
Recorded at Oalanka Studios in 2011
Published by Sequenz Frequenz Records

Lydda Nights

Night Dreams

Julian Maramieri - Live at Lydda 2019

"Celestial Drift"

Sub rustik - WALKER

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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