Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #71, Basho's "borrowing sleep"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First I have to apologize for the delay of this new Tan Renga Challenge. And second I have to apologize for something else ... I have asked several of you if I may use their haiku for our Tan Renga Challenge, but I have forgotten to write them down. So my apologies for that too. Would you please be so kind as I have asked you for permission to use your haiku to write that in the comment field of this episode.

For this episode of our Tan Renga Challenge I have chosen a haiku by Matsuo Basho, one of the big five classical haiku-poets. I think this haiku by Basho can inspire you in a lot of ways to write a second stanza to the Tan Renga as id the goal of this feature. That second stanza (two lines; 7-7) makes the Tan Renga complete or will continue the scene depicted in it.

borrowing sleep

from the scarecrow's sleeves
midnight frost

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

And here is my second stanza:

borrowing sleep
from the scarecrow's sleeves
midnight frost                      (Basho)

the abandoned little girl

left alone without grief         (Chèvrefeuille)

A very sad continuation, but in those times girls weren't always welcome in a family and in a lot of countries nowadays that's still reality ....

This continuation is inspired on a Dutch special week "The Week of the Forgotten Kids" which is now. Even in a country like The Netherlands there are abandoned children left alone on strange places. For example several months ago in one of the major cities a little child was found in a waste-bin.

This episode of our Tan Renga Challenge is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday at noon (CET).

Make the Tan Renga complete by adding your two lined second stanza towards it.

1.	Pirate	6.	Bastet's Waka Library	11.	opie houston
2.	jazzytower	7.	Paloma	12.	Dolores
3.	Leslie Moon	8.	Magical Mystical Teacher	13.	Tournesol
4.	Mish D Sky	9.	usha menon	14.	Lorna
5.	Lovely Thing	10.	Cressida de Nova	15.	Nimi

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