Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Well ... I am getting the vibe again and I hope you all will have fun and joy again here at our wonderfull Haiku Kai. Earlier today I published our first episode for July 2021 and I hope to be here every day again, except de weekends.
Today I was reading in one of Jane Reichhold's Poetry Collections and immediately thought "It's Time Again For A Renga With Jane". So I took a dive into her wonderful dictionary of haiku and extracted a nice series of haiku from "Summer", "Celestial". I gathered six (6) beautiful haiku about clouds to challenge you all with.
Renga, or chained poem, is a nice way of collaborate poetry. The goal is to add your six(6) two lined strofes to the given haiku written by Jane through association.
I will give you six(6) haiku, you can decide which haiku you use to start with, the hokku. Remember that the goal of a renga is to create a "closed circle" of haiku, so the ageku (closing verse) has to be related to the first haiku you used.
Here are the six (6) haiku by Jane Reichhold:
beach tent billows
in the summer blue
white clouds
desert sounds
out of the sun's way
clouds moving
morning downpour
raised to new heights
afternoon clouds
dancing lights
clouds sprinkle the sun
across water
clouds
colored by open wall
a driftwood lair
curving with the land
a rainbow of clouds
moves out to sea
© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)
By adding your two-lined strofes you create a so called "Juunichoo", a 12 verse renga.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 9th at 10:00 pm (CEST). You can add your Juunichoo, your Renga with Jane, to the linking widget hidden in our logo below. Enjoy!
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