Inspired by this week's Haiku challenge:

distant hills …
beyond the gate
winter stillness

Clive is a sometime philosopher, thinker, dreamer, birdwatcher, poet, and occasional writer. Living and writing in beautiful North Wales.

He draws inspiration from nature, especially birds, which he has been watching for as long as he can remember

Clive’s haiku have been published in the Wales Haiku Journal, Presence, Hedgerow, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, ‘Failed Haiku’, tsuri-dōrō journal, and most recently in the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal. He can be found on the Drifting Sands Poets Hub.

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

Deadline: 8th March 2023

haiku by Clive Bennett https://mobile.twitter.com/birdsinhaiku

Chilled Air (naviarhaiku478)

naviarhaiku479:
Summer night
transforms to daybreak.
I count fleas.

haiku: Ryōkan Taigu https://allpoetry.com/Taigu-Ryokan
image: freestocks https://unsplash.com/@freestocks
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Night Transforms To Daybreak [NaviarHaiku479]

naviarhaiku479 – Summer night

Sotto la coltre verde della foresta esiste un`incessante attività della natura. Non solo statici e rassicuranti droni sonori, ma soprattutto impulsi ritmici e percussivi.
Under the green blanket of the forest there is an incessant activity of nature. Not only static and reassuring sound drones, but above all rhythmic and percussive impulses.

Clays Mallets and Keys.

Reaktor Ensembles:
TG-1S
TG-8H Live
TG-8H

14/03/2023

Ants Bees And Fleas (naviarhaiku479)

naviarhaiku480:
filling my shadows
glorious rays bringing growth
heavenly ascent

haiku: Jennifer Doty https://twitter.com/jenncord
image: Elton Sa https://unsplash.com/@bigeruta
for the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Glorious Rays [NaviarHaiku480]

haiku by Michael Dudley http://michaeljdudley.com

picture by frame harirak https://unsplash.com/@framemily

Nawak

Misty Viking (naviarhaiku484)

naviarhaiku486 – Lost in tranquil seas
Lost in tranquil seas
Where spring feels melancholy
Another sunset

Gary Clarke joined a social media platform to raise awareness about an infrastructure issue in his local area by creating a website at Whaligoe Eye in August, 2021. During this time, he stumbled across a poetry and writing community which provided support and encouragement for his creativity.
Living right on the coastline in the Highlands of Scotland provides Gary with plenty of inspiration for his poetic endeavours, and through moments of sunrise and sunset gracing the North Sea it proves to be a motivational muse.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 3rd May 2023

haiku by Gary Clarke https://whaligoeeye.co.uk/

picture by Lavi Perchik https://unsplash.com/photos/bwm26JyAHBk

Lost in tranquil seas

NaviarHaiku486 - Lost in tranquil seas

visuals (YouTube) @ https://youtu.be/I0LP8EfY9Lk

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

picture by Guillaume de Germain https://unsplash.com/photos/Z8l4vxWTEiY

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF everywherE [naviarhaiku487]

naviarhaiku487

Sound of mountain
sound of ocean
everywhere spring rain.

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

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

Deadline: 10th May 2023
haiku by Sôen Nakagawa
picture by Guillaume de Germain

Everywhere Spring Rain (naviarhaiku487)

I've been meaning to engage with NI Playbox for a while now ... coupled with needing to start work on some of the video projects planned for the halF unusuaL YouTube channel, including this recording of a bee harvesting pollen from the first poppy to flower in the back garden ... https://youtu.be/I983Kk6enPI

More on this 597th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Goal Line (The Assignment: Get started on a plan by getting over getting started), at: https://disquiet.com/0597/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0597-goal-line/

halF goaL [disquiet0597]

Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

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.

One star remaining (naviarhaiku492)

see accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/4bQZ3Gwerio

bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert

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

Picture by EVGENIY KONEV https://unsplash.com/photos/YEcvdJ97Oig

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

halF polyphonY [naviarhaiku495]

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.