Don't We All Get a Say?

WHALE  REQUIEM

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

as soggy neutrons - naviarhaiku608

8-29-25 (diaphanous)

Made for the haiku challenge 609 of Naviar records.

revealing in the dark the sadness of things a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Thank you Marco!

A fisherman's torch (naviarhaiku609)

September 24, 2025
Image - Tal R, Grapes, 2005

FOR TAL R

d e g e n e r a t e   d e l u x e

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #613. More on Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Star Above The Peak - naviarhaiku613

A drone-based piece made for the haiku challenge 614 of Naviar records.

The coming of autumn determined by a red dragonfly

by: Kaya Shirao

Kaya Shirao was born in 1738 in Fukagawa, Edo, now part of Tokyo.
He ran a school in Edo during Spring and Autumn, but in Summer and Winter, he would move to the countryside to teach thousands of aspiring poets from throughout the Shinano province (now Nagano Prefecture). He's considered one of the first established haikai writers to help spread cultural forms from national to regional urban centers.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Red Dragonfly (naviarhaiku614)

A reworking for this track in my archive originally created in autumn 2024, after a few versions in the last year i  find it fits well with the context of Haiku Music Challenge Naviarhaiku 617



an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki



Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

more info here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/

an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku#617)

All songs labeled (NNLF) = lilxflirt and Nicky Nukem 
Logo art, timeline art, and all cover art labeled NNLF made by lilxflirt
All ambient tracks and instrumental tracks made by Nicky NUKEM
My music is all over the place. I recently found out I have low T, which explains the swings in themes and moods throughout my work. 
Also, I'm trying to be entertaining, don't take the artwork or lyrics or titles too seriously.