Trip to Poland (Haiku and pictures; lecture on haiku)

     

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In 2018, the lecture on HAIKU was given by L.P. Lovee, taking the opportunity of a music festival held at a spa town in Lublin, Poland.

(L.P. Lovee is an English pen-name of Satoshi Kinoshita)  

    

   

praying for peace_

around the summer fields of

Auschwitz   

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In Auschwitz, the above haiku was composed by Satoshi Kinoshita before the lecture on HAIKU. 

   

    

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The title of the lecture is "Let's enjoy haiku", with the subtitle "World peace through haiku".

(Click here to see the text of the lecture.)

     

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In the lecture,the first slide showed the above haiku and the picture of Dr. Herman Van Rompuy and Satoshi Kinoshita snapped together at a party in Tokyo, Japan.

  

Dr. Van Rompuy is the former EU President: now acting, among other things, as the Japan-EU haiku friendship ambassador.

       

Auschwitz_

clear sky;

breeze of green-leaves   

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a freight car of railroad ruin;

summer grass fields;

Auschwitz

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the ash pond;

moaning sound of wind:

the Holocaust

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It was fine weather when I visited Auschwitz. The fine weather seemed to symbolize peaceful Poland of Today. However, strong winds blew from time to time, sounding like groans of victims of Nazis.   

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Krakow_

bird view of the acient city;

cool, from the tower  

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summer sky_

the sound of the trumpet:

a time signal of the church

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the birth house of Chopin_

refurbished and bright,

breezes of green-leaves   

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piano music from

the Chopin birth home_

the cool garden    

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the summer evening;

in a Polish church

the ancient organ reverberates   

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It was very lucky that I had an opportunity to listen to the 400 years old pipe organ at a concert held in the church of Kazimierz Dolny.

     

stepping out from the concert hall,

the park  

in a white night   

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In the birth house of Chopin, a prize winner of Chopin Piano Competition performed Chopin's polonaise, etc.

   

At the music festival, besides pianists from Italy, etc., from Japan, Mr. Shu Katayama(片山 柊)played "Etudes For Piano - III. Calligraphy, Haiku, 1 Line" (Toshio Hosoawa) etc., which was an amusing piano music. 

  

Mr. Katayama won the 41st PTNA piano competition Grand Prix, as well as a Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology prize, etc.)

   

I hope that international exchange of haiku will be promoted more in the future like music. Somehow, I felt it wondrous to have encountered with people and music through haiku.

   

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