Tag Archives: Haiku

Exuberance – Haiku

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Bubbling over with

Sudden sparkles of frothy

Effervescent joy!

18 March, 2012

(Entirely instigated by misplaced exuberance of young girls of my class who indulged in a bit of graffiti in school, and were apprehended, red-handed :P . They wrote “Exuberantz” supposedly a “gang” name. Horrors! Yes, I did my thingy of ogre-ishness, and then wondered: How I love that word!
Hence. Because. And So. :P :) :D :lol: )

More Haiku, here. 

Picture, Google Images.

Happy Day Haiku :) (For the Sailor Who Took Home a Poem :) )

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True blue to your club
Truer yet, to your glowing bride!
Happy Day, her Cap’n!!!

Happy Birthday, Arjun S. Kumar! May the sweet joy of this day permeate the rest of the year! God Bless!

23 December, 2011
For 28 December, 2011


(Title tagline, credit to Sachin Stalin who titled the album of Arjun’s and Sashu’s wedding pictures, thus :) )


Haiku- Tat tvam asi

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Alone, in your grace,
When You say; tat tvam asi.
Quietude fills me.
30 November, 2011
Notes: (After an age, I went very early, in the morning, to the temple; the peace was tangible, the air crisp, the feeling of being one with the energy was deeply moving. As I returned, the lines “Aham Brahmasmi/ Tat tvam Asi” the Sanskrit sloka meaning, very simplistically, “I have the divine in me/ You are that (too)” kept repeating itself. I had to write this :) )

More on Haiku, here, with the explanation of what it is. Briefly, it is Japanese Art form, in writing, where you need to use limited number of syllables… only 17, arranged in 3 lines of 5-7-5. I