It was the year of the hidden tiger and the crouching dragon, and as the Japanese saying goes, 'Ai Bang Mai Ni'. Yes, yes... it was a Japanese haiku moment; pure poetry, in 3 lines, with its 12 phonetic units and that huge leap after the second line, where the mind must catch up, creating a sensation of space. And then that zen-like realization of the ultimate truth!!!!!! that Aha moment!!! that moment's experience with God!!!! A Zen master has said that if you write 5 haiku in your life you are a haiku writer, and if you write 10 you are a master. My first humble attempt is below.
Hao Yu Dry Wing
Ai Bang Mai Ni
Dum Gai
Ai Bang Mai Ni
Dum Gai
It was both our faults, for which I took the brunt of the impact. He turned suddenly without giving an indication as a bit of speed and a wet road made my impulses try to avoid him, turn sideways and skid. My knee was swollen, with a purple haze; and so I got a bit worried as my mountain biking expedition is approaching. I visited the orthopedic the next day as he poked and pulled for 3.1415926535897932384 minutes; charged me a humongous amount and then broke the news to me in haiku form
Yippieee, I jumped with glee as they poked me with a tetanus injection.
It Wa King Fine
No Pah Blem
Yu Go Nao
No Pah Blem
Yu Go Nao
Yippieee, I jumped with glee as they poked me with a tetanus injection.
7 comments:
There's a fine line between genius and insanity! This says it all!
I asked Dhruv to read it when I first wrote it.... he was concentrating on figuring out how to pronounce it and didn't get it the first time... thought it was in some foreign language :-) although anyone who heard him read it would understand it :-)
I thot it was some foreign language however ur comment helped me decipher the stuff
"Dum Gai" whatz this ?
Sabhash... that was cool ways to write Haiku... I loved it...
:D
:)i am back to blogging after a short hiatus.
I'm finally back blogging! By the way, do you have a myspace account?
@ vaidehi
welcome back :-)
@ etchen...
don't have a myspace account..
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