HAIKU TEA: Session I - Walking By The Creek

SHARING HaikuTea - Linked Verse Inaugural Session March 2013

The inaugural 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...

Here is the final compilation of HAIKU TEA collaborative poetry by the following poets, as named next to their verses....

To participate in the 'Ongoing Session II @ HaikuTea' please click here... 

WALKING BY THE CREEK

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Cut into pieces of

Being; Bridge across forever

Waits - for the Fall                              - (Shashi)

The end of time's illusion

Everything at once                                 - (BobHartwig)

Beautiful feelings, flowers

Touching twilight                                   - (CraigVolney)

in the Valley of the Moon

murmuring quail                                    - (JimmythePeach)

sings the tree over creek long flown

was it worth its life?                              - (AnnaLipniacka)

Yes, a moment in nature -

All is relative.                                        - (A. M.Frasier)

Fate contingent on free will -

Native impressions.                               - (BerteenaGaines)

Fleeting,ephemeral,like

Water reflections.                                 - (GabriRigotti)

Pebbles pelt disruptively.

Sky untouched -- intact!                      - (Carolyn St. Charles)

thunderbolts, lightening, rain

pound the earth like mad                    - (Gracy Dsouza)

with every trail of sparks

flowers in night sky                             - (Dicere Babe)

Twilight  came back to the man

walking by the creek                             - (Anna Lipniacka)

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Compiled by Anna Lipniacka

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 II at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Renga - A Verse Every Day; Collaborative Poetry HaikuTea

A Verse Every Day - Collaborative short verses of three lines to be called HaikuTea

Within a Google group, I am moderating a Haiku Group Some of the friends there, suggested a great idea to start collaborative short verses within the members of group, hence this post to give a little back ground on the ‘Collaborative poetry’.

If anyone would like to participate in this collaborative poetry at Haiku Group at Google Plus, please leave a comment below with your Google Plus ID, so that I can invite you to the “HaikuTea”. Please read the rules, given at the end of the post, carefully to participate.

RENGA

Renga (collaborative poetry) is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two ku or stanzas. The opening stanza of the renga, called the hokku, became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry.

Traditional renga was a group activity in which each participant displayed his wit by spontaneously composing a verse in response to the verse that came before; the more interesting the relationship between the two verses the more impressive the poet’s ability. The links between verses could range from vulgar to artistic, but as renga was taken up by skilled poets and developed into a set form, the vulgarity of its early days came to be ignored.

Renga was one of the most important literary arts in pre-modern Japan. The earliest surviving renga is in the Man'yōshū, where Ōtomo no Yakamochi and a Buddhist nun made and exchanged poems with sound unit counts of 5-7-5 and 7-7. This two-verse style is called tan-renga ("short renga"). Other styles are called chō-renga ("long renga").

Two of the most famous masters of renga were the Buddhist priest Sōgi (1421–1502) and Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694).

The first stanza of the renga chain, is called hokku.

Hokku (lit. "starting verse") is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collaborative linked poem, renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga). From the time of Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun (in combination with prose), and haiga (in combination with a painting). In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki(1867–1902), renamed the stand-alone hokku to haiku, and the latter term is now generally applied retrospectively to all hokku appearing independently of renku or renga, irrespective of when they were written. The term hokku continues to be used in its original sense, as the opening verse of a linked poem)

Hokku is the forebear of the modern haiku. The stand-alone hokku was renamed haiku in the Meiji period by the great Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki. Shiki proposed haiku as an abbreviation of the phrase "haikai no ku" meaning a verse of haikai.

RENKU

Renku ("linked verses") is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ushin renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae [(a mora is “something of which a long syllable consists of two and a short syllable consists of one.”-American linguist James D. McCawley in 1968) The term comes from the Latin word for “linger, delay”, which was also used to translate the Greek word chronos (time) in its metrical sense)]. Initially haikai no renga distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term renku gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it.

The oldest known collection of haikai linked verse appears in the first imperial anthology of renga, the Tsukubashū (1356-57).

During the last decades, the practice of renku has spread beyond Japan and established itself as a legitimate genre in English and in numerous languages around the world; the Global Renku Symposium, meeting in Tokyo in 2000, featured renku poets from USA, Romania, China, Russia, Australia, and Korea, as well as Japan. With the growth of the internet and of electronic communications, international renku collaborations have grown in popularity, including the previously mentioned countries as well as renku in French, Croatian, German, Italian, Afrikaans, and Esperanto. Sometimes, renku are composed simultaneously in two or more languages.

RENSHI

Renshi is a form of collaborative poetry pioneered by Makoto Ooka in the 1980s. It is a development of traditional Japanese renga and renku, but unlike these it does not adhere to traditional strictures on length, rhythm, and diction. Renshi are typically composed by a group of Japanese and foreign poets collaborating in the writing process in sessions lasting several days. In addition to Ooka, poets who have participated in renshi include James Lasdun, Charles Tomlinson, Hiromi Itō, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Jerome Rothenberg, Joseph Stanton, Wing Tek Lum, Karin Kiwus and Mikiro Sasaki.

Text Curtsy Wikipedia as linked on the topics
This is not an exhaustive report on the Collaborative Poetry, I have tried to give most of the links here to understand the form. Hope you have enjoyed this post.

To participate in this collaborative poetry at the Google Plus, 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)    …

10)  …

Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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WHISPERS: I carry the moon.... Some Haiku

TODAY IS THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND ...

I carry the moon

Balanced on end of life's path; In

Day to day living

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The beauty in

Itself; Sufficient and flowers

Does not fall for praise

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Flowers flower, unfurl

Beauty within, nothing

Beyond true existence

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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An apology to Delhi Gang Rape Victim 

UP, CLOSE & PERSONAL: Life School and an inspiring person... Narendra Goidani...

LIVE RICH, NOT DIE RICH

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A belief that I do believe in... that most of the times we are all running around to scare away the scarcity that we either find or believe in, but then the nature around all of us is not made of scaricity but of abundance... so we should not just keep accumulating money, but we should instead of live in now and fully... and that's what Narendra Goidani, an amazing teacher, trainer and guru to many great business man believes in ...

Narendra Goidani

It was interesting to meet Narendra Goidani at my office when my partner's organization Mcircle (an NGO) called him for a talk ...

An easy going person, who, I would have never realized, has more knowledge (for a 12th std pass person, who was working as a helper in Chennai some years back and now spends only one hour a week for his organization which is going to be a 200 Million US $ firm in five years) than the people he hire in his organization from London School of Economics. 

His Lifeschool and his vision is to create 100 holistic schools across India where the students will learn how to live life beautifully and wholly.... with an intention not to ask for a single rupee from any one so he started a business to earn the money on his own for his schools... all 1000 crores of it .... while his own business of training sustains him and his family ( just to give an idea about that business, he has waiting list of months together for his business development residential program of 8 days (@ the cost of 12000 US$ per person) ... and as he says, he believes in "Living Rich, not dying Rich"

The talk was amazing and I enjoyed it so much.. so much so that I intend to offer my ancestral land in the village for his proposed school, as I shift to my village to create a great shcool, a Hospital and Ashram in 2020...

Some of his thoughts are given below...

KEYS TO SUCCESS

Narendra Goidani Life School Founder

1) Create something that cannot be copied... (Remember, if something can be copied, it will be ...)

2) Success depends on what kind of team you have..

3) Creating a good team is all about rewarding them for the past and inspiring them for future.

4) No one can copy and good team and to do that you need to be perceived as Fair person, as elder brother who will take care of their financial issues so that they can focus on the dreams of yours, which becomes theirs as well.

5) CHARACTER IS NOT EQUAL TO CAPABILITY. So if you are hiring some person, do look for Character but along with it, ensure that he has competence as well as courage. Just because he is known to be a great and sincere person, does not ensure that he can be a successful team member.

Good thoughts as above and many more ... must listen to him and his very lovely style of delivering thoughts in an amusing and interesting way...

Good to attend the program... 

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Hindu Lit Festival 2013 Day 2

UP, CLOSE & PERSONAL: Hindu Lit For Life Day 2 and the Winner is Jerry Pinto

It was another great day at the Hindu Lit For Life festival.... with most lovely ladies gracing the stage ... It was a pleasure to see the famed dimpled smile of Sharmila Tagore set the stage on fire with its brilliance...

And then there were the gentlemen... who with there interesting thoughts, great comments and inside stories from Srilanka through Ashok Ferry as well as from the Mean Streets of Delhi's Red Light District, by one of the famous blogger "The Delhi Walla" Mayank Austen Soofi ...

But the day started with inside stories from the session 'The Green Room' by Wendell Rodricks, (beautifully brought alive by the host Ranvir Shah) ....

...who informed that after the famous wardrobe failure, the model prays before going to the stage now...

It was a pleasant surprise to see the famous Fashion Guru Wendell, (whose biggest regret in life is not to patent the Short Kurta, he designed, which is now copied the world over) attired in subdued Black Long kurta instead of usual flamboyance of Designers.... 

Meeting Rodricks was quite a pleasure and discussing with him about his social works around his city of Goa was enlightening. He says his inspiration to do social work came from his father and he reserves all his saturday for one social cause or another if he is in town. I was happy to receive his email on his way to Europe, from Doha Airport within few days, to connect with me and continue the discussion... as well as do something together. Looking forward to it...

The other interesting session was with Varun Agrawal, Veena Venugopal along with Lalita Iyer.... 

... as they discussed the challenges faced in 'Writing For The World's Youngest Nation'...

But the best session of the day was reserved for the great chemistry between Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma of 'Highway On My Plate' Fame... The way they connected with each other on the stage as well to the audience, was amazing. Hence the most thunderous applause from the dignified and well mannered audience of Chennai was well deserved.

Finally the time arrived for the announcement of the prizes... first the surprise contest of writing a beginning of a novel, just one short paragraph which captures the reader to look forward for more received overwhelming response from the audience, who competed quite eagerly and as Vikram Kapoor said... some of the most profound entries were discovered. And the best was from the bespectacled young boy 'N Chandrashekhar'

And then, as I had already guess yesterday, my friend Jerry Pinto was announced by Sharmila Tagore, the winner of Hindu Lit Festival prize for the best fiction... and as he said, "Hearing my name announced by Mrs. Sharmila Tagore, it does not get better than that..."

Finally it was end of the festival with a lovely discussion, where young heart throb of South India Shriya Saran was engaged in lovely conversation with one of the most beautiful and graceful ladies of North Indian Cinema, Sharmila Tagore very engagingly hosted by Jerry Pinto...

It was a lovely time at the festival and I look forward to the next festival hopefully in 2014....

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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