Each day on the Troutswirl blog we will reprise a film featured in HaikuLife 2020, The Haiku Foundation’s haiku film festival, the only one of its kind. Today’s film: A free format video featuring dance interpretations of haiku by Indian poet Kala Ramesh & Leela School of Dance. Music by Pandit … [Read more...]
Creative Blooms 1: Distance from others, closeness to self.
In his Nobel lecture, Ceslaw Milosz quotes Simone Weil: “Distance is the soul of beauty.” What does she mean; how deeply have her words influenced this great poet? Can you feel that somewhere over the edge of knowing — something hovering, emanating at the horizon-line of … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was: Gita chanting birds become the ellipsis — Kala Ramesh, Triptych, Red Moon Press (2019) Petru Viljoen follows the V … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was: celebrate the day pay no attention to the years —Susan Le Roberts, Haiku Foundation Per Diem (August 2019) Sanela Pliško … [Read more...]
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Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was scattered beer cans deer shoot across a lonesome gravel road —James Babbs, Haikuniverse November 6th … [Read more...]
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