Naviar Haiku 530

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Picture by Nikhil kumar

Sleeping Somewhere

Sleeping Somewhere (NaviarHaiku530)

Navair Haiku 534

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Marco is the founder of Naviar Records.

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Dameli Zhantas

Onward

Onward (NaviarHaiku534)

https://youtu.be/Mfbh2NhtcZM
Naviar Haiku 534

Pre-dawn inertia
Where do I go
From here?

Marco is the founder of Naviar Records.

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Dameli Zhantas

Onward (Piano)

Onward (Piano) - NavairHaiku534

Naviar Haiku 535

Come outside!
we can almost touch
the spring moon

Nakamura Teijo was a Japanese poet from Kumamoto. A great admirer of Sugita Hisajo, she started writing haiku poetry in 1918, when she was eighteen. In 1934 she joined the prestigious Hototogisu magazine and, in 1940, published her first poetry collection, Shunsetsu 春雪. In 1947 she launched a magazine called Kazabana, which she edited and supervised until her death, in 1988.

Haiku by Nakamura Teijo
Picture by Vino Li

The Moon in Passing

The Moon in Passing (NaviarHaiku535)

Naviar Haiku 536

Tall, wide-arching trees
Assume a cathedral shape
Until darkness falls

John participated in the Naviar Haiku challenge for over 4 years, almost every week, and shared both his music and poetry with us. He'll be deeply missed. "John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, was a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John was also involved in multiple projects: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland), ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott), Szukanie (with Michał Wojciechowski), and Meadowlight (with Emma Reed)."

Haiku by John Hinks

Picture by Mike Petrucci

FlownBlue’s Forest Cathedral

FlownBlue’s Forest Cathedral (NaviarHaiku536)

The Woodlands (Official Music Video) - An AI video of imaginary woodland scapes
https://youtu.be/zEIq8RJtC9Y

The Woodlands

https://youtu.be/rn_zmYjNv6E

The corn outside my window grew an inch during a ten-minute rain. The field is slowly turning from brown to green, out to the horizon. A robin stares into my open window, seeming interested in the sound of piano.

Piano Rain

If catharsis is the sense of relief after tragedy, this is what comes afterward.

The Sound of Light

The simplest of piano pieces, extracted from a week of catharsis.

The Sound of Light (Piano)

A reflection in piano on the moments that come our way.

In Some Unexpected Way

I'm a composer, working from a 3' x 5' studio (some may call it a dinette) in a 5th wheel camper, while traveling the United States. I've been on the road for six years, so most of my recent work will have come from a different state (of mind and location) during my travels.

Music makes me feel better about everything. I don't know that I'm ever happier than when I am creating. I sometimes wonder if creativity isn't one of the primary keys to happiness. Do you ever feel better than when you say, "Look what I did."? This phrase magically conjures the purest sense of childlike joy.

Music works for every part of our lives. We all have music for when we are sad, happy, celebrating, meeting others, when we are alone, and even when we are lonely. Did a song come to mind as you read each of those situations? I remember the first song I ever heard on the radio, on my first bus ride to kindergarten. One of my favorite musical memories is playing in a band for steel beach on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

I love telling stories with music. Everybody loves John Coffey in the Green Mile, but Mr. Jingles should have a song commemorating his reaching and joining the circus at Mouseville. If you agree, join me for this and similar journeys. The music here is synthetic, but as real as you would choose to have it.

My music most often lands on Soundcloud first and is inspired by one of my favorite communities, Naviar Haiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
I find writing to a Haiku prompt sufficiently limiting and exquisitely inspiring.

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