Naviar Haiku 527

ore train
bright colors
passing quickly
 
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.

Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems and Funny Pages were just released by Setu and Meat For Tea press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Yavanika.
 
Haiku by Jerome Berglund

Picture by CHUTTERSNAP

The Blue Rail

The Blue Rail (NaviarHaiku527)

Naviar Haiku 528

What's a month for the sea
as the waves touch my feet
a shiver, endless

Haiku by Marco Alessi

Picture by Frank McKenna

Time as Variable

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)

Caught Up

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

This song started with my journey through the Narrows in Oregon.

https://youtu.be/Fc7RP2QTbIc

The Narrows

Gold and Silver would have you choose Red or Blue
https://youtu.be/NlumfPORoXE
https://open.spotify.com/album/6A4kJHZnDEHjfxsqetV2y4?si=gcAxQLA1SsKY_Cpb_Eq5ew
https://music.apple.com/us/album/animus-undone/1760122460?i=1760122461

Animus Undone

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

The Sound of Light

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.

New tracks tagged #FAW-Sublab