Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
We are counting down to the end of this wonderful month full of Love. Only four days left (regular episodes) and than we will start a new month full of exciting words and views ... next month we will do a reprise visit at Shikoku Island.
Today however we are still in the Love mood and with love we know there comes ... desire ... Today I love to challenge you to create a Renga With Jane Reichhold, our beloved and so missed co-host of CDHK may she rest in peace.
The goal of this feature, Renga With ..., is to add your two-lined verses / stanza through association on the scenes in the given haiku ... together with Jane Reichhold you are creating in that way a so called "Junicho" (a 12-stanza renga).
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| Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) |
Here are the six (6) haiku by Jane Reichhold, extracted from her online Saijiki "A Dictionary of Haiku", section Spring, sub-section Moods:
morning fog
dreams not buried
deep enough
spring sunshine
the strangeness of his perfectly
normal thumbnail
kids laughing
in the neighbor's house
the childless couple
moonlight moving
with the gate as the servant girl
takes an evening
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| Desire In The Moonlight |
Saturday rain
desire by a warm stove
for an affair
waterfall
delicate forms
for a spirit
© Jane Reichhold
As always you can choose your own "line-up", but ... your Renga With ... has to start with the following haiku:
moonlight moving
with the gate as the servant girl
takes an evening
What an awesome series of haiku on desire to work with ... love cannot exist without desire ... Create your Renga With Jane Reichhold ... enjoy!
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until March 3rd at noon (CET). Have fun!
Apologies, sometimes my dumb ADD brain latches onto a concept and I neglect to read the rest of the instructions. I only wrote a Senryu.
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