Carpe Diem's Tan Renga Challenge #15, Managua Gunn's "Cricket's last song"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies, that's so true and I have some trouble to catch up, but this week another Tan Renga Challenge will start today.
This week's Tan Renga Challenge starts with a haiku written by Managua Gunn from "Coffee with Yer Pirate". He is one of our long time contributors to Carpe Diem and he writes wonderful haiku, but sometimes I am really caught by one of his haiku. This haiku by Managua Gunn did at first read bring another haiku into my mind. That haiku has been written by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) and is part of his haibun "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North). I love to share that haiku by Basho first, before I share the haiku by Managua Gunn.


staying at an inn
priest and prostitute under one roof --
bush clover and the moon

(c) Matsuo Basho (tr. by Chèvrefeuille)


Well ... as you will understand, the haiku by Managua Gunn, is also about a prostitute. So our first stanza of the new Tan Renga Challenge is:


Cricket's last song
even the prostitute hears -
stops waving her fan

(c) Managua Gunn

The task of this Tan Renga Challenge is to complete the first stanza with a second stanza with 7-7 syllables. Copy and paste the first stanza by Managua Gunn and your second stanza into the contributed post. Have fun, be inspired and share your completion of this Tan Renga.


First stanza (5-7-5):

Cricket's last song
even the prostitute hears -
stops waving her fan                                            (Managua Gunn)

Second stanza (7-7):

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My completion of this Tan Renga:

Cricket's last song
even the prostitute hears -
stops waving her fan  (MG)

the sound of a thunderstorm
makes the client anxious  (Ch)


I hope you like this completion. And I hope that you all will complete this Tan Renga with a lot of inspiration. This Tan Renga Challenge will stay on 'till September 27th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new Tan Renga Challenge later on that day.