Haiku and Diaku- A New form of Exile poetry-from Haiku to Diaku

By Udaya R. Tennakoon

The Diaku form is, so to speak, halfway between Haiku and Tanka, as it has four lines of 27 syllables: the first three lines follow the pattern of Haiku, while the fourth line contains ten syllables (5-7-5- 10). The last single line in Diaku poetry represents a different but related experience expressed through images. This “finale” should relate to the third line of the poem: it could be a shift, a transformation, or a deconstruction of what the third line means. Anyway, this line should describe a diaspora, migration, and exile experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Udaya R. Tennakoon
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005283575

Udaya R. Tennakoon

As a Diaspora Poet, he lives in Zürich, Switzerland, but his home country is Sri Lanka, where he was born in 1970. Being a political refugee, he sees the world in many perspectives and engages with writing, theater, and research. Tennakoon graduated from University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. At the University of Basel, Switzerland, and also at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, He has studied ‘History’ in his bachelor, ‘Drama and Theater’ and ‘Peace and Conflict Transformation’ for my master Studies. As a writer, he has published several books in Sinhala and has done some theater works. He contributes articles to many websites and also as a social activist, he has been engaging with many voluntary works inside Switzerland and Europe as well as outside in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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Acknowledgement

In my poetry writing, I am grateful to all those to whom I am given experience to think and to create the signs in to words. Fabrizio Frosini, my poetic friend, thank you for your support in checking my English. This anthology will again be published as a German translation, and I must thank Claudia Janssen as well. And finally to all of you of my readers.

Udaya R. Tennakoon

03.01.2022

Zürich

To my loving KIDS

Content

A General introduction to Haiku and Diaku

Boiling Water

Lessons

Digital clock

Letter box

A wired flower

Faces and signs

A bird cries or sings?

Constructed mind

Animals in zoo

Thoughts through space

A stranger

At the river

A bird and shadow

God, once friends

Clock on the wall

I hide my tears

A concrete block

Silence speaks

Virus in mind

Speed control

A hybrid class

A queue to pay

A leaf in my book

A police siren

A ruler in mind

Human void

Leaves fall

Notice on a wall

A sigh of hope...

An untold truth

A baby's born

Sound and closed eyes

Another year

Victim in myself

Dispersed Bees

A holy silence

Silence in my mind

A buffalo

My eyes in past

Night again

A pair of shoes

Light of window

I am evidence

A bunch of rose

A fly on Table lamp

Crescent in grey sky

Desires fight

One more coffee

Divided silence

Party dress

Father