My First Haiku Award

It was the day when almost winter started to get itself ready to knock
the door in kolkata, and weather was perfect enough to prove the
pre-winter-festive mood.
That was the very end of the October and the session was tremendously enchanted.

It was time am talking about when Kolkata got the opportunity to met
the Haiku Master from japan.
She came on the very crucial time of Kolkata riot on October,2007.
To be fact, that was a golden chance for Kolkata to prove its one of
the color in front of her.

October, 2007 was one of my the most memorable moment in my life when
I got the opportunity to receive the award from Haiku Master(from
japan) by herself.
The day, NKK, a Kolkata based japan consulate sponsored, japanese
teacher student organization, organized such a beautiful program. it
was the day of full of learning session. I was pursuing my final year
in RKMIC, Kolkata. I and few of my classmates were requested by my
faculty to attend the session on haiku(japanese poetry) because that
session was really for senior japanese students and japanese teacher
across the India. We few were really happy and felt so proud to be
part of that.

At 60′clock It was started and she began with a good intro of herself
and her fellow students who were working on Haiku(japanese poetry)
Since a long time.

The first half she taught the haiku practice and the formation of
haiku, initialized by the history of haiku. Technically its actually a
small poetry consisting 3-4 lines containing 3 words in each. Over
online so many haiku s are available. It is very easy to construct But
at the same time it is nothing but very brief of your thoughts
consisting full of your emotions. The expressions that you will throw
through haiku lines could prove the focus point of your expectation
and could bring the drama also. At the same time the essence of purity
of your thoughts will be brought into the limelight of listeners.

there are rules of reading haiku in front of listeners:
1. you have to read it twice.
2. voice must be filed with emotions as per expected.
3. haiku name and haiku writer’s name should be announced at the beginning.
4. english or japanese, it should follow the mandatory rules of necessity.
5. no criticism or explanation after haiku reading.

The second half of the session was practice where almost all the
seniors and japanese teachers were ready to spell out their haiku(s).
At the same time we were also preparing on the basis of teaching(taken
on the first half on that day it self). Finally i took the initiative
to go though my haiku when it was almost ready to deliver, mean while
haiku master was putting down which was getting highly populated.

Finally at the end of the session she declared the name of the winner
of the night.
We 3 of our japanese class-met were there. and when she pronounced the
name of mine, it was the moment i just cant explain. the time i was
totally blank for the time being. In a fraction of second I felt like
I was out of this universe.

actually i wrote the ZIZI HAIKU that she explained later…
it was,

A big red canvas
thousands are crying
in silence.
She was so happy after heaing this haiku, just after completion of my
speech she replyed, “yes! i also cant imagine kolkata could show me
the red in term of some separate way.”
It was as highly appreciated as I had never imagine ever in my life.
That night onwards i had fall in love with haiku and start writing so
many.
In NKK magazine also haiku used to published, written by our our
senior japanese fellows.

Haiku is the most beautiful way of expressing feelings, I had seen. It
could be one of the way of writing poetry in japan or anything. But
the most important thing is the relationship between the size and
meaning. It is inversely proportional.

That was the first award I go from some delegates I dreamed about.
That was the lucky and as well last opportunity for kolkata it self
and for us also for attending such sessions.
The haiku master never returned back in Kolkata again.