midnight rainfall
the syncopations
of a dream
Diana Webb
Diana says:
"Syncopation encapsulates haiku essence, placing unexpected stresses, causing imperfection to shine, often using a rest to replace a stressed beat, so this key word shows how a waking dream can conjure the apotheosis of a poet 's longing, in conjunction with the beat of rainfall's natural phenomenon at the witching hour."
Diana’s favourite haiku
"I would like to choose this one by Phillip Murrell, a poet whose work I have long admired, (memories of one about sun reflected in a marmalade jar, and also admiration for the one picked by Susan King as her Museum of Haiku Literature winner) in Blithe Spirit."
the dinosaur room
my charge's tiny hand
slips into mine
Philip Murrell
First published: Blithe Spirit Vol 28 no 1 (2020)
Award:
British Haiku Society 'Museum of Haiku Literature' award winner (BS vol 28 no 2, 2020)
Diana says:
"This haiku, while at the same time showing a moment of intimacy between age and extreme youth, also communicates a shared feeling of awe and sense of mystery about the aeons before history, mingled with a tinge of terror regarding aspects of nature that preceded our presence on earth. A meditation on many aspects of time."
Diana's Quote from Waiting for Godot
'In the meantime nothing happens'
Quote from Withnail and I
'We've gone on holiday by mistake'
Notes from Alan:
Syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur".
It is the correlation of at least two sets of time intervals.
Syncopation is used in many musical styles, especially dance music. WIKIPEDIA
apotheosis \uh-pah-thee-OH-sis\ noun.
1 a : the perfect form or example of something : quintessence.
b : the highest or best part of something : peak.
2 : elevation to divine status : deification.
Merriam Webster dictionary
...the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax.
e.g.
"his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career”
Oxford Languages
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) wrote
Love, Poem 18: Apotheosis.
Published: 1896
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series One.
Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers. (1896)
Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-poem-18-apotheosis/id384527817?i=1000085155704
Text and/or audio:
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/114/the-poems-of-emily-dickinson-series-one/2398/love-poem-18-apotheosis/
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote
"The Apotheosis, or the Snow-Drop" in 1787.
Published:
Express and Evening Chronicle (January 1798) No. 516 reprinted from the 'Morning Post' 3rd January 1798
https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10049596
Philip Murrell
A long-standing member of the British Haiku Society.
Phillip's haiku first appeared in Blithe Spirit Vol 28 no 1 (2020) and was reprinted in BS vol 28 no 2 (page 8) as Diana Webb’s Museum of Haiku Literature winning choice.
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