Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Carpe Diem #1610 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (14) changing of the robes


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our CDHK Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019. Today I have a nice haiku by another classical haiku poet for you to work with. By the way this will be a short episode just because of lack of time. So I will give you only the haiku to work with.
Today I will give you a haiku created by Shiba Sonome (1664-1726) Shiba Sonome was a Japanese zen poet. She was an acquaintance and friend of Matsuo Bashō, and their correspondence is a treasure of zen and haiku history.

Sonome was known for her poetry, which possessed a frank and immediate sense of purpose.

Shiba Sonome

Here is the haiku by Sonome to work with:

changing of the robes -
deliberately I go to the neighbour
to hold her child

© Shiba Sonome (Tr. Gabi Greve)

(By the way: the caption brings you to an older episode of CDHK about Sonome)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 26th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun!


Share your completed Tan Renga with us all here at our Haiku Kai.


1. Kim M. Russell  4. Maya  7. Sara McNulty  
2. Virginia Popescu  5. Madasahatter572  
3. Cressida  6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr  

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