childhood song —
the rhythm of women
threshing grain
—GEETHANJALI RAJAN
Reminiscent of Basho's haikai verses about agrarian songs.
I'm reminded of bird's song during certain farming activities, from the human whistles of red kites (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's home in Buckinghamshire, England) to Queensland, Australia, with this two line haiku:
into the evening a tractor harvests
willywagtail song
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Azami Special Edition (Japan 1998)
Thank you for your kind comments, Kala, Alan, Harris and Nakano san.
This ku is for my (late) grandparents who lived in agrarian Kerala (India) and I can still smell the grain and hear the harvest sounds four decades later!
Alan, thank you for sharing the lovely lovely, willywagtail song.
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July 9th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Nice.
July 9th, 2014 at 7:44 pm
I love this one. i can smell the grain and dance to the rhythm. My name is Genie Nakano
July 10th, 2014 at 1:26 am
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childhood song —
the rhythm of women
threshing grain
—GEETHANJALI RAJAN
Reminiscent of Basho's haikai verses about agrarian songs.
I'm reminded of bird's song during certain farming activities, from the human whistles of red kites (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's home in Buckinghamshire, England) to Queensland, Australia, with this two line haiku:
into the evening a tractor harvests
willywagtail song
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Azami Special Edition (Japan 1998)
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July 10th, 2014 at 3:14 am
I like it a lot, Geethanjali.
Way to go, girl :)
July 10th, 2014 at 4:18 am
Thank you for your kind comments, Kala, Alan, Harris and Nakano san.
This ku is for my (late) grandparents who lived in agrarian Kerala (India) and I can still smell the grain and hear the harvest sounds four decades later!
Alan, thank you for sharing the lovely lovely, willywagtail song.
Geethanjali
July 10th, 2014 at 4:24 am
Humans are wired in such a fascinating way!
July 10th, 2014 at 8:54 am
Very evocative. I keep going back to this haiku,
(I haven't been to India, but I did visit my daughter in Queensland and so enjoyed the willy wagtails.)
July 22nd, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Oh this is stunning! I thought of blues music on reading this at first, but now I see it is set in India the haiku has been transformed.
marion
November 30th, 2015 at 4:00 pm
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