TTW: Thought & Haiku of the Week and Haiku Tea Session XII

THOUGHT THIS WEEK:
BE THE BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING THAT YOU ARE… 

"Absolute love is perhaps the most difficult thing to find in life for many of us, but it comes naturally to a mother. Because, a mother allows her caring to seep deep into her soul, manifesting pure love without any expectations. Whereas most of us build walls around us, with our needs, desire and lust; and we almost always wish to own and transform our loved ones."

"To really love, we should allow love to happen. Remember affection and care almost always transforms into love in depths of our heart and soul." - V.E.D

HAIKU TEA SESSION XII

A global creative co-operation of poets writing linked verses at a very popular Haiku group at Google Plus... The poets write one after the other, taking the last line of the previous poet as the link to thread their own creative output. The result is one of the most beautiful collections of verses... as below. I am sure that you will enjoy it as much as we all did.... The name next to it is the poet who has written those lines... To read the original session and see the process, please click here...

Soul prisoners search
A meaning of 'being'; In
Voids of love; Alone                                -  

Tears withheld from empty skies
under sullen summer breaths...              -  

a warbling chick
nothing but sticks, flesh, chirps, nest
the whole of one                                     -  

bathing in the distant flow
the ripples… they disappear...               -  

wandering within
foraging in still silence
gathering moments                               -  

an old, empty room pregnant
with memories                                     -  

that the bars cannot contain
love's fluidity...flows free                     -  

laughter of a child
a dirty, torn summer dress ...
captured memory                                -  

Safe in a bottle
Floating between images
Linked by counted breathes               -  

rising and falling like tides
forever chasing the moon                   -  

watching the night bend
and tumble amidst the stars
the cold black ocean                          -  

waves of memories lapping
ships in the night pass you by            -  

drowning tears awaken
the senses from twilight
island muses to ponder                       -  

once again the meaning of
Being, and Loving Freely                    -  

What is being free...
By my own definition(s)...
I'm a prisoner...                                   -  

To society's bleak cage
How to find self amongst crowds        -  

caged between the bars 
bruised wings of forlorn dotage
yearns to fly again                             -  

butterfly in sunshine- hating
walls every second, evading             -  

how light is the heart
that finds love without searching
soul mates hand in hand                    - 

we chart the ultimate course
sojourners in time and space            -  

until we escape
limits and predefined paths
to feel being one                               -  
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END

To join the next session, please leave a message below or at my profile at Google+ 

HAIKU OF THE WEEK

Gopi's love...

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Krishna unfolds me

Into flowering petals

Of sweet ecstasy

IMAGE: The wild plants of Vana Tulsi at Nidhivan in Vrindavan, where Krishna used to dance with the Gopis - the village girls, whole night which is known as Raslila. It's said that this forest of Wild Basilica plants still hosts the Raslila of Krishna every night...

To know more about Vrindavan, come walk with me to the place where Krishna's love flowered... Click here

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Haiku Session V

27th Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind

Welcome to the second edition of the year, 27th of the blog. It took a long time for me to compile this edition so it has a lot of interesting stuff. From the Lit festival to Sun Temple, from the tips on Writing Novels to Poetry. I have enjoyed creating this edition and hope you will also enjoy reading it.

This edition also marks the start of another Weekly Session, “Thoughts This Week” where the ideas and some exclusive Haiku are being shared, and posting the collective effort of poets to write Linked verses in Haiku Tea.

THOUGHTS THIS WEEK

Courage to Soar and Haiku Solitude ...

THE READER

You will find in this links below some of the resources, and some of the books I have loved so much that I have written about it and given a gist of the thoughts that I have enjoyed reading.

How To Write A Book? - A Serious Guidefor Aspiring Authors...

'What's The Fuss' about Google Plus?

WHISPERS - Some of my poetry

I carry the moon.... Some Haiku

UP, CLOSE & PERSONAL - Some people I met, some action that happened.

Chennai Bloggers for Social Action ...

Life School and an inspiring person ...

Hindu Lit For Life Day 2 and the winner is...

Hindu Lit For Life Day 1

STILL LIFE - Some of my images from my various journey's spiritual or otherwise

Most famous Sun Temple – Konark

Revenge Of Mother Earth - Earth Day

Hindu Lit for Life Festival

HAIKU TEA - A collective effort of writing linked verses by some of very interesting poets I have met in Google Plus Community - Haiku

Renga - A Verse Every Day;Collaborative Poetry Haiku Tea

Session III - Drifting Apart

Session II - Will Hope Succumb

Session I - Walking By The Creek

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Hope you will enjoy this edition... look forward to your comments and visit to the next Edition... please click on the “Join this Site” button on the right hand side top corner to follow my posts on this blog... I will be grateful.

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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26^th Edition

HAIKU TEA : Session III - Drifting Apart

FINAL LINKED VERSE - SESSION III

HaikuTea - April 2013 (15 Collaborators)

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WHAT ARE HAIKU TEA SESSIONS?

If you write, love collaborative writing, enthusiast of poetry and enjoy writing short verse like Haiku, Tanka, Renga, Renshi etc, then Haiku Tea sessions are for you... (Click here to join in for the Session III) Some weeks back I have had created a group on Google Plus for Haiku enthusiasts and through a suggestion of one of the friends, I started Linked Verse Sessions known as 'HaikuTea' on the lines of traditional Japanese style of public collaboration of writing poetry, where were quite popular in ancient Japan and China. These HaikuTea session at the group is getting to be quite popular in the group and the result - The Final Verse of 19 poets linked verse is for you to judge about the excellent quality of work these session produce... each one with their color and hue, paint the canvass of the emotions, feelings and thoughts in brilliant shades... Loved it.

The poets who are linked in these sessions are through invites only. If you are interested to be invited, please leave a comment on this link, (Click Here) with your concurrence AFTER READING THE RULES OF COLLABORATION.... 

The HaikuTea Session IV starts on 29th April.

The previous two session was wonderful and will be published in various blogs, forums by the members as well as will be printed as a collection by end of the year...

Now the final collection of verses by the 15 amazing poets is given below and their name's and links provided next to their lines...

DRIFTING TOGETHER

Drifting apart life, 

Memories float under bridge

Where riverbanks meet?                         +Shashi S 

Balanced reveries across 

Sunset Nirvāṇa.                                      +Berteena Gaines 

Are you awake or dreaming?

Only Buddha knows                                +Harley King 

Where the ashes of past lives

Drift, to their karma.                                +Gabri Rigotti  

they rise in treaty with gods

who never answered                               +Joe Nicholas  

Torn faith fleeting, feelings frayed.

Expectations spent.                                +jamer nicholls 

pockets empty, homeward trudge

red-sun silhouettes                                 +Carolyn St.Charles 

For love-dreaming lovers, dark!

Come to their dreaming                        +craig volney 

Promise of eternity

Wrapped in each other                          +John Belchamber 

Moments become memories

Frozen in the seconds                           +Tammy Wright

Sad smile, hiding a secret

Love lost in the flow                                +Francis JA 

Gone.  All Gone.  Supremely Gone

To the other side                                    +Jim Williams 

i follow hope, feet fearful -

the slack line trembles                           +Naomi Madelin 

Contemplation, Line pulls taut

Decision made...walk                            +A. M. Frasier 

Back to spiritual life,

Together again                                    +Steve Yagyagan 

To participate in this next collaborative poetry @ HaikuTea, please read the simple rules below… 

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1) This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2) You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3) Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4) At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5) The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6) You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7) If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8) Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9) The compilation of the individual verses will be done at the end by a person nominated by the moderator and/or the members.

10) Final decision on this collaboration is with the moderator.

PLEASE NOTE: You agree, by participating for this collaborative poetry HaikuTea Sessions, to be published in various blogs by the members (with due credit to each individual participating) as well as a final collection to be printed by end of the year. Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

To participate in the ongoing Session IV at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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HaikuTea Session II Final Verse

HAIKU TEA : Session II - Will Hope Succumb

FINAL LINKED VERSE - SESSION II

HaikuTea - April 2013 (19 Collaborators)

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WHAT ARE HAIKU TEA SESSIONS?

If you write, love collaborative writing, enthusiast of poetry and enjoy writing short verse like Haiku, Tanka, Renga, Renshi etc, then Haiku Tea sessions are for you... (Click here to join in for the Session III) Some weeks back I have had created a group on Google Plus for Haiku enthusiasts and through a suggestion of one of the friends, I started Linked Verse Sessions known as 'HaikuTea' on the lines of traditional Japanese style of public collaboration of writing poetry, where were quite popular in ancient Japan and China. These HaikuTea session at the group is getting to be quite popular in the group and the result - The Final Verse of 19 poets linked verse is for you to judge about the excellent quality of work these session produce... each one with their color and hue, paint the canvass of the emotions, feelings and thoughts in brilliant shades... Loved it.

The poets who are linked in these sessions are through invites only. If you are interested to be invited, please leave a comment on this link, (Click Here) with your concurrence AFTER READING THE RULES OF COLLABORATION.... 

The HaikuTea Session III starts on 15th April.

The previous two session was wonderful and will be published in various blogs, forums by the members as well as will be printed as a collection by end of the year...

Now the final collection of verses by the 19 amazing poets is given below and their name's and links provided next to their lines...

WILL HOPE SUCCUMB

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Life has scattered seeds

Waits for the memories to

Grow into longing                              -  

To relive past victories

To feel youth's passion                      -   

To Bring Back Things Lost, Many

Many Like Flowers                            -    

Many Like Flowers

tap muddy feet, delighting

one crimson petal                             -   

Open wide, drink up the sun

Now, tis time for fun                          -  

and profound reflections with

tender threnodies... (Funeral Song)    -   

life’s strewn seeds yielded thorns

will hope succumb?                          - 

Will hope succumb?

your freedom starts at dry grounds

take it, keep walking!                        - 
It is about the journey 

The road less traveled                       -   

To where It stands, Singular,

Calling the Walker …                        - 

Waiting for the memories

To help me forget.                            - 

To help me forget

greener grasses, purple haze

colour yesterday                              - 
thoughts so haunting

traveling through the air                    -  

My soul searches for love, peace,

Savoring the view                            - 
I pretend the clouds are hills

on the horizon.                               - 

On the horizon

dawn births the egg of fire

to sear the sky pink                        -  

With reflections of tall birds

Flaming with bright love                   - 
gazing at strangers

in this familiar photograph                - 

In this familiar photograph

memories lap at your feet

a forever flow of holy green               -   

To participate in this next collaborative poetry @ HaikuTea, please read the simple rules below… 

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1) This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2) You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3) Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4) At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5) The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6) You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7) If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8) Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9) The compilation of the individual verses will be done at the end by a person nominated by the moderator and/or the members.

10) Final decision on this collaboration is with the moderator.

PLEASE NOTE: You agree, by participating for this collaborative poetry HaikuTea Sessions, to be published in various blogs by the members (with due credit to each individual participating) as well as a final collection to be printed by end of the year. Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

To participate in the ongoing Session III at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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HaikuTea Session I Final Verse