Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #88, Jane Reichhold's "shamanic journey"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge. It's Friday again and I am late with publishing this new TRC, but .... well we have a wonderful tropical day (temperature has risen over 30 degrees) and I have enjoyed it a lot .... so sorry for being somewhat late.

This month we are discovering modern summer kigo as compiled by Jane Reichhold and to honor her I have decided to use haiku by Jane for the Tan Renga Challenges this month. This Friday I have a wonderful haiku for you all, also for summer. As I read this haiku I was immediately in love it and it brought nice memories back of our wonderful "myth, legends and saga"-month last year and our journey with Trans Siberian Railroad with "Aleph", the novel by Paulo Coelho, in our hand.
In those months we had encounters with shamans and the haiku by Jane is about shamans, more precise a "shamanic journey".  I hope her haiku will inspire you to write the second stanza for the Tan Renga (two lines 7-7 syllables) as is the goal of this Tan Renga Challenge.

Here is the first stanza, the hokku (the haiku by Jane), for this Tan Renga Challenge:

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe

© Jane Reichhold

And now the challenge is to write/compose the second stanza through association on images in the haiku. Let me help you a little bit on the road ...

For example you can use shamanic, journey, red, dragonfly, comes, guide and canoe. Or maybe go to the deeper layer. Than you can use e.g. spirit, nature, wisdom, ancient, healing, magic, mystery, mystical, eagle, new ways, path, Inner Self , drums, visions and so on.

Let me give it a try. I will first give a few examples of the possible second stanza:

shamans drums resonate
the cry of an eagle

deep silence - the voice of the stream
and buzzing mosquitoes

ancient wisdom unfolds
becoming one with the dragonfly

And now I will bring those three examples linked to the haiku by Jane: (in italics my 2nd stanza)

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe
shamans drums resonate
the cry of an eagle

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe
deep silence - the voice of the stream
and buzzing mosquitoes

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe

ancient wisdom unfolds
becoming one with the dragonfly 

Wow ... there will be a lot of other possibilities, but these were meant as an example and now it's up to you. Make the Tan Renga complete with your second stanza.

This episode of Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday June 12th at noon (CET).