!! Open for your submissions next Sunday August 19th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
It's almost weekend and that means time again for our special feature Carpe Diem's Weekend Meditation and this weekend I love to challenge you with a new version of our "Renga With Basho". As you al know (maybe) Basho was a famous renga-master and he attended several renga parties as a guest, a participant or as judge.
Today I was re-readin Jane Reihhold's "Basho, The Complete Haiku" and ran into a beautiful "hokku" he wrote for one of the renga parties he attended. That gave me a nice idea. I love to challenge you this weekend to create (again) a Renga With Basho, but this weekend I have "re-named" this special feature to "Renga With Basho Hineri". "Hineri" means "with a twist" and than you all can know that this is a little bit different than our regular special feature "Renga With Basho".
I will give you six haiku written by Basho in a translation by Jane Reichhold, but one of those haiku is a real "hokku" used by Basho at a renga-party he attended. You have to start your Renga With Basho with that real "hokku".
Here are the six haiku (including the real "hokku") to work with. The goal is to write the 2-lined stanza between the haiku and to close the "chain" with a "ageku" that connects the last verse with the first one. Except the hokku you can choose your own line-up for this Renga With Basho Hineri.
blossoms at their peak
the mountain the same as always
at daybreak
with young leaves
I would like to wipe away
the tears in your eyes
swinging bridge
lives are intertwined
in Ivy vines
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| Melons and Eggplant (Japanese woodblock print) |
autumn coolness
each peeling with our hands
melons and eggplant
a clear night
cooling myself under cherry trees
waves of flowers
to get wet passing by
a man is interesting
bush clover in rain
© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold; taken from "Basho, The Complete Haiku")
The original "hokku", the first verse of this renga is the one in fat-green print. That "hokku" you have to use as the starting verse of your Renga With Basho Hineri. You can choose your line-up from the five other haiku (in dark blue).
Create your Renga With Basho Hineri by writing the two-lined stanza with approximately 14 syllables. It's up to you now ...
This weekend meditation is open for submissions next Sunday August 19th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until August 26th at noon (CEST). I hope to publish our new regular episode around the same time. For now ... have fun and enjoy your weekend.
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