Five Haibun by Tar Pool
Wanted to write a few poem-songs using a different approach - songs with very plain and exposed meanings, almost not really songs at all. These were written more or less in the haibun form, a Japanese form of poetry where you have a chunk of prose, followed by a short haiku that throws a new perspective on the prose. Historically it was used for travel writing. Here's one by the main old Japanese poetry guy, Basho:
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I travelled a few miles on horseback, half-asleep, with my whip swinging by my side, exactly in the manner of the Chinese Poet, Toboku. There was an aged moon faintly hanging in the sky while the foot of the mountains was dark as a hollow. It was a bit too early even for the first cock-crow, but my dreams were suddenly interrupted when my horse came to the steep precipice of Sayo-no-nakayama.
Half-asleep on horseback
I saw as if in a dream
A distant moon and a line of smoke
For the morning tea
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I think it was intended to be used to communicate beautiful scenes and profound thoughts and experiences, but there's nothing they can do to stop you using the form to relay boring walks you've been on, and mundane realisations you had on them - so that's what I've done here.
Written Dec 2022 and Jan 2023 - recorded at home one afternoon and one evening in February 2023.
Thanks to P.W.E.
Tracklist
| 1. | Gift (Isle of Arran) | 3:45 |
| 2. | Teufelsberg | 2:17 |
| 3. | Three Worlds | 2:16 |
| 4. | Pheasant | 3:22 |
| 5. | Yellow Leaves | 2:52 |
