At last night's Rant and Rave celebrating the 2nd anniversary of Da Space, Grace read some of her hay(na)ku she wrote while puzzling through her play, "My Body, MySpace". She said she found the structure beautiful in its succinct form as it helped her to focus the intent in her work. Brilliant! I wrote using the form today and found Eileen Tabios website on the subject. http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/.
I also had the good fortune of sharing my desire of doing a video documentary project on the death of my cousin, SGT Myla L. Maravillosa who died while serving in Iraq with a Kanaka Maoli filmmaker, Meleanna Meyer. She gave me wonderful suggestions and I hope to chart the progress of my work here in Hay(na)ku form.
Doubt
Shadows me
Tripping my confidence
What
Story on
Video will I
Tell
Others who
Seek to know
"That’s
Interesting, wanting
To be a
Nun
While serving
As a soldier"
Contradictions?
The truth
Died with her
