Searching—the one word that seems to say everything about me. I went
through Indian Classical Music, first instrumental, then vocal. Soon, I found
myself teaching children drawing and painting. Then I plunged into yoga, Hindu philosophy and Vipassana. Being a music student since childhood, I saw the beauty of how each musical note lives for a moment and fades into the void—that sacred silence. And resonance lingers in the spirit long after the sound has disappeared. All this led me to haiku in Call it serendipity!
Having come into the haikai world, I believed that the elusive path would keep me engaged for a long time. It has! I dream that every Indian learns to appreciate and write this succinct form of poetry.
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mountain shadow robs the tree of its
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the ocean in a raindrop inside my womb a heart
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who am I
a falling leaf
gives the answer
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Indian Youth Discovering Haiku
— Kala Ramesh
It is great fun to work with children – for the very name ‘haiku’ fascinates them! Curiosity is one thing kids have in abundance and if you catch that you tap into some great creativity and talent.
I can report this confidently now! But I still remember the first school where I was asked to teach haiku, way back in It was a government school in Delhi, under ’s “I Love Reading” program – I had two minute sessions with ten-year-olds— whose teacher, on seeing me, quickly stepped out, assuming it was her “free period.”
There I was face-to-face with 50 little kids and I was supposed to teach them this year-old art form from Japan. I was just 8 months into haiku and had no experience teaching it. Where to start and where to finish? I was at my wits end. I was a complete failure; neither the kids nor I knew what I was doing!
After the lunch break, I had my second chance with the other section – again 50 children, all eager to learn. I showed them an A 4 size paper with a haiku typed on it and asked them to illustrate it. After 5 minutes, I made such a fuss about their drawings – I told one child to come forward and show it to
fire
within the womb
to create
month after month i am
the very breadth of dreams
last light
dipping with the sun my hopes
for his survival
is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, a mentor, an editor and anthologist, an artist, and a renowned pioneer in the field of haikai literature in India. She is the Founder/Director of Triveni Haikai India, the Founder/Managing Editor of haikuKATHA Journal, and haiku editor of Under the Bash&#;.
Her book of haiku and haibun Beyond the Horizon Beyond (Vishwakarma Publications, ) was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in , and her book of tanka, tanka prose, and tanka doha The Forest I Know (HarperCollins India, ) was launched at the Jaipur Literary Festival on 13 March She co-edited Wishbone Moon: A Women&#;s International Anthology with Roberta Beary and Allen Crompton (Jacar Press, ). Kala&#;s ebook one-line twos in collaboration with Marlene Mountain was published by Bones Journal in
With 17 years of teaching, Kala has been instrumental in bringing Indian school kids, undergraduates, and adults to haiku and Japanese short-form poetry. She is the
Silences as seen in Indian Aesthetics
by Kala Ramesh
The Indian theory of anaahata baani (the un-struck sound) and rasa (the aesthetic essence) – still practised and kept alive in all Indian art forms – has aesthetic correlation to the interval in time and space or, in plain words, the silence used in haiku poetics. I call this dialogue the run of the umbilical cord because I strongly feel that all art forms are integrated into the same principles that seamlessly hold them together, and that one feeds into the other.
For long, I’ve also held the view that techniques are the banks that allow the spirit of creativity to flow. Without these banks, there would be devastation and the saddest thing is that the river would be lost. There are two sides to every coin. So if we consider this creative spirit as a river, then we need to keep it flowing – which demands the need to enquire, expand the banks and dig deeper – for we all know that stagnant waters stink.
In this essay I want to look deeper into what we mean by silence and how is it employed in haiku.
Observe the built-in silences in this poem:
on a bare branch
a crow has alig
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