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Greetings Rebba, I really enjoyed your set of introspective senryu. As Narayanan sir remarked, it is surely extending the genre. Saying one's name out in poems has a mysterious humour and charm. If we said our names that way always (in conversations) it would become a humorous habit indeed! Children refer to themselves too by their names I suppose, at times ~ thanks for sharing these.
Shyam Santhanam Mon, Apr 28th 2008, 20:23

great day shyam...its a pleasure to read your comment... i avoid 'form'...be it material or conceptual - if it happens to lay down rules and regulations...those dos and don'ts... i think speak act and write spontaneously...very rarely do i revise the words...surely not for correcting...that too to adhere to a set form... i go for the thought message and conceptual rendering of personal experience...hence the name... why generalize wayward thought... why limit thought to generalize understanding... each being understands as is his/her experience... thought evolves with experience... experience is the one that teaches... understanding arises from experience... each one thinks for himself/herself... acts and reacts accordingly... understanding can never be imposed... it is an extremely personal process... that grows as thought evolves with experience... personalizing form wards off unnecessary perceptual/conceptual controversy...
Rebba Singh Mon, Apr 28th 2008, 21:38

that's a good way to go... I've seen that words are ever re-discovered and so surely their forms too. I've learned that no two utterances of even the same word are ever the same! genres or forms should be a light scaffolding allowing free exploration. I'm just trying to aphorize vaguely but you have demonstrated here. :) I enjoyed reading these and considering them in (my understanding of) the unique historical/literary/aesthetic aspects of this senryu genre ~ and felt the horizons expanded. but this is literary appreciation maybe and not writing! you make me see that my wayward thoughts are my friends too! I should just see where they go and not constrict them just coax them to be eloquent! Thank you for this interesting chat.
Shyam Santhanam Mon, Apr 28th 2008, 22:46

perfect understanding shyam...go with the flow... knowledge can restrict... markanday mahadev lived to see many pralayas and vishva pralayas (destruction and universal destruction)... experience made him extremely knowledgeable...a long life - 12 times that of brahma's (creations) one life time...can you imagine... how did it end... in realization... the realization that from perception comes sound... sound is perceived as a letter so that the letter takes the form of a sound named as such...various sounds of named letters are then gathered into words of thought...words into sentences of experienced thought... experienced thought goes on and on...accumulating knowledge...till experience in itself is complete...then comes the state of total realization...one contemplates and lets go gathered experience of thought sentences words and letters... markanday did just that...he let go so that he could float eternally with the all knowing soul of all that is and all that is not...that which observes without judging...that which is the good and bad...depending on what is to be experienced...
Rebba Singh Tue, Apr 29th 2008, 03:19

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