New Year’s Day–
that I’m still on this journey
unbelievable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyui1cZRSWE
Among the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa was the most prolific: during his lifetime he wrote over 20,000 haiku, hundreds of tanka, and several haibun. If you want to find out more about this prolific author I suggest you check out this database of his haiku.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
Deadline: 4th January 2022
haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa
picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt