praying_
around the summer fields of
Auschwitz
This is a haiku composed at Auschwitz by Satoshi Kinoshita for the haiku lecture. The lecture was given taking the opportunity of a music festival held at a spa town in Lublin, Poland.
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.)
The first slide of the lecture showed the above haiku and a picture of Dr. Herman Van Rompuy, snapped with Satoshi Kinoshita. 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
a freight car of railroad ruin
summer grass fields
Auschwitz
the ash pond
moaning sound of wind
the Holocaust
It was fine weather when I visited Auschwitz. The fine weather symbolized peaceful Poland of Today. However, strong winds blew from time to time, sounding like groans of victims of Nazis.
bird view of the acient city
cool, from the tower
summer sky_
the sound of the trumpet:
a time signal of the church
the birth house of Chopin_
refurbished and bright,
breezes of green-leaves
piano music from
the Chopin birth home_
the cool garden
the summer evening
in a Polish church
the ancient organ reverberates
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
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.