...Haiku has been described as a moment in time captured in words that somehow captures more than the words might seem to convey. When the poet and the reader connect and the deeper meaning is seen, it is called an "aha" moment..:...
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nourishing, sweet image, such hope I love this Gillena
ReplyDeletegood sets, Gillena as always....and thanks for the essays: Visual haiku was my interest all along...most photos have a haiku or two therein i think - to get it right could be a job in itself:)
ReplyDeletewishes,
devika
okay, but i sometimes think - the 'aha' moment comes when there is no photo - many times when i read haiku i've felt so -- would like to know your thoughts Gillena? just to know
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surely Devika; fundamentally a haijin will write out of a personal experience or interpretation, but the reader is absent and is drawn in when the writer presents the haiku product, then there is a sharing and an asimilation based on known aplications of meanings, there is always because of the nature of haiku, which is brevity, so much space for reader speculation, questioning and imaginings; but based on haiku group interelations readers and writers know that there are on many levels and occasions that simpatico, when both are at the same point of understanding, as if both were together at the same point of the haiku beginning and there is the shared 'aha' of understanding and appreciation
ReplyDeletegosh did i just write a mini essay?
much love...
okay, there i get you...but i was basically asking about the effect of a presence or absence of photo for the haiku ...and the realisation of "aha" -- ie. between a haiga (or photo + haiku as separate set) and a standalone haiku
ReplyDeletei thought of it as -- sometimes the 'aha' is fast with a photo or a picture...but sometimes without it...when it the picturisation happens in the mind of the reader -- i have felt it sometimes to be more effective - though i love a haiga more than haiku -- from an artistic viewpoint
may be a photo takes the reader to the author faster and hence the work on the mind is lesser? or something like that
was asking about your views on that, Gillena - the essayist has not touched on those aspects; saying only about finding the moment/vision in a photo,
wishes,
devika