A year ago, I started posting one short poem a day to Inleo’s threads. Shortly after, I started posting those same poems to Instagram (357 days ago to be exact). About eight months later, I was contacted by a UK based ambient music label to see if they could use one of my poems for their weekly haiku challenge.
In these challenges, the record label shares a haiku and musicians that follow the label create ambient music tracks based on their impressions of the poems. These compositions are then collected and shared on Soundcloud and also in a weekly radio show.
While submitting autobiographical information about myself with this record label, talk turned to Japan, and the owner of the label asked me if I would be interested in participating in one or more of the haiku/music events that he was planning for January and February of 2024.
After three months of planning and preparations, the event I will join in Tokyo is now only one week away. I am very excited to see how it goes and what it could lead to.
I’m also left with a question.
Why don’t things like this happen on HIVE?
Or do they and I’m just not aware of them?
(1)
the love hotel
on this country road
full of vacancies
(2)
spring thaw
my heart releases
months of tension
(3)
the week before
hay season begins
no coat no tissues
(4)
hiding your face
is this like Monday for you
new moon
(5)
a dog passes
leaves fall
I fill my cup
(6)
the sea swells
its waves turn over
things it has swallowed
(7)
under the old trees
with their giant canopies
young ones don’t grow
As always, thank you for reading.
