During the month of July There will be featured here at Lunch Break haiku related essays; original copyright remains with the websites and to their respective writers.
Spliced In - Day 4
...Most important -- haiku can take you out of the dominant, instrumental way of relating to the world: to nature in general, and other beings, including humans. What does this mean...
Read the essayEcstasy of the Moment and the Depth of Time
What a haiga, Gillena!
ReplyDeletemay be just me, Gypsies are very special to me- may be more inetersting than the people i know..., i have that habit of listening to people who wander...who have great stories to say :)
wishes,
devika
**interesting
ReplyDeleteall my life I've dreamed of being a gypsy, yet it is opposed to everything I am....\lovely Haiga (thanks for the word dEv)
ReplyDeleteokay Lorraine...And On your comments, Lorraine..you have said it for me too -- I used to set out to see the world (as part of my job often, though i've travelled only in India)...and the first thing i would want is reach back home :)
ReplyDeletethe real gypsies often have tough stories to say about family and relatives...and such like -- becoming a gyspy is like a fantasy (normally most of us can't take it for the actual harsh life...all that's beautiful in dreams may not be so in reality - i feel so :)
wishes,
devika
suppose that makes me a cyber gypsy :)
ReplyDeletebut on another level i can merge with the writer of this haiku, and in extension say dosn't it make us take stock of overselves, reminding us how important it is to love ourselves; so that when we get thrown into a group which questions ourself worth we grow rather than diminish
much love...
cyber gypsies - we all are pehaps :)
ReplyDeleteI am not sure of what you say Gillena...the real gypsies i've spoken to do not love the world or themselves -
as for us we can say, if not out of self-love, out of self-respect we are taught to value ourselves right from childhood -- aren't we?
But does that give us any right to belittle another human being created equally -- be it a gypsy or beggar woman --
I think i must be able to respect them and their right before I respect myself and my right.
anyway, all the haiga and art are possibly to meant to make us better human beings -- though we were much possibly better off before as human beings, though may not be as poets,
And to you, I am always thankful for space you give me for an exchange of thoughts, Gillena :)
wishes,
devika
Okay you say of merging with the writer...i talk from the point of view of the gypsy -- i can't merge myself with the writer, as i can identify with gypsy -- atleast for the gypsy nature of our minds :)
ReplyDeletewishes,
devika
this merging, is in contemplation after reading the haiku over and over again and questions arising from the theme, haiku writers will often present a nuance based on some observation and throw it back to readers without a resolve then the reader is left to muse over the poem, questioning, exploring the mysteries, and filling in the gaps...
ReplyDeleteThis time, you make me laugh with your seriousness, Gillena...we or rather i enjoy doing it all the time...else i wouldn't be reading poems, here and elsewhere :)
ReplyDeleteand on the mystery of life...is that you are left alone to face it sometimes..despite a whole bunch of family, friends and relatives,
wishes,
devika
well, the mystery of life as i see it :)
ReplyDeletewishes,
devika
and on exploring mysteries in poetry and art -- isn't that an attmept to understand, reflect, relate, if possible, and validate -- our experience with the poet's?
ReplyDeletethat has always been mine -- and i know it's a never ending interest as is the endless number of poets,
but here i couldn't converge my views with the poet...but as you too say, but could do so with the gypsy; we being cyber gypsies :)
wishes,
devika