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Some months ago I was heading to the doctor’s when I heard a voice say “notice the tattoo,” or “ look at the tattoo,” something along those lines, which left me pretty baffled, unsure what this meant or why it suddenly popped into my head. But I made sure I would pay attention to any tattoos I saw at the doctor’s office. When I got there a young nurse admitted me and checked my vitals. She was pretty and had a calming grace about her. When she went to take my blood pressure, I saw on the inside of her wrist was a single tattoo: a red rose. Throughout the day I contemplated what this symbol was meant to mean and why I was supposed to see it but couldn’t really make any connection to it. 
Around this time I had started learning more about the saints. I was reading a book of poetry by St. Thérèse of Lisieux “the Little Flower” that I really loved. In it are the most tender of love poems dedicated to Jesus, other saints and her fellow sisters at her convent. 
But it wasn’t until a couple of days ago I found the novena prayer to St. Thérèse and was shocked and tickled to discover it is apparently common knowledge that she’ll send a rose to those who ask for her prayers. 
Now I can’t remember if I had, at that time, asked, but maybe she went ahead and sent the rose knowing I would catch up down the line. Either way, this beautiful haiku by El Wud evoked in me this memory and the desire to repay her kind gift.

So dear St. Thérèse of Lisieux, this one’s dedicated to you:


Curve of time—
a thought takes flight,
scent of a rose.

by El Wud
Naviar Haiku challenge #577

A Rose from St. Thérèse [naviarhaiku 577]

naviarhaiku579 – Mount Asama
The event Bosun refers to is the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783, which instantly killed over 1,000 people. The toxic ash traveled 100 miles to Edo, making farmland useless and causing many more people to starve.

Reaktor Kodiak sequencer by Matthias Schaffner
Loops, Drones. Riff in crescendo of pianos and double bass.

Loops on Ashes (naviarhaiku579)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Mar 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA & Union Square, NYC, USA. 

Tenor sax, photo theremin, reverb, echo. 

Drawing/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 9 Apr 2018, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Reason That Nobody Cares About” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up. The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688

The Reason That Nobody Cares About (disquiet0688)

Acoustic repetitive, all real instruments:
Ronrocos
Ukuleles
Acoustic bass
Bombo legüero

Composed and performed by DD, 2024

For this haiku

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

by Kajiwara Hashin 


@naviar-records

From Heaven (naviarhaiku584)

My track notes regarding the creation of this track can be found here: 

Disquiet Junto Project 0690: Knot Bad
The Assignment: Interpret wood grain as a graphic score.

Step 1: Find a piece of wood, the grain of which captures your imagination.

Step 2: Consider how the shapes of the grain might be interpreted as a graphically notated score. (If you are not familiar with the concept of a graphic score, read up.)

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which you interpret the grain of the wood you selected in Step 1 as a graphic score.

[Disquiet Junto 0690] Contin You'd Uhm

This track was created in response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge:

"fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills"
 
Raymond Cobley (@ray_cobley) is an experimental composer and regular participant in our 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.

haiku by Raymond Cobley
extract of picture by Inggrid Koe
 
Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

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

showing (naviarhaiku586)

3May25
My naviarhaiku591 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/782223294913036288/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains

:D

both dream and reality [naviarhaiku591]

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

by: Marc Sheridan

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/

Thanks to Marco Sebastiano Alessi from Naviar records.

The forest (naviarhaiku592)

Lyrics:

Bury me 
Forget my name 
Bury me 
Forget my face 
Dig the dirt on my grave
Let me rot and decay 
Headstone with my name 
Love aura blessed gang 
Bury me oh

I can't go on like this 
Did you forget I exist?
I miss your body on mine 
I miss your lips on my lips 
You know I couldn't resist 
You got my heart in a twist 
If only i got my wish

Loops on Ashes (naviarhaiku579)

Meccaniche del Suono