Carpe Diem's Tan Renga Challenge #16, Jazzbumpa's "cold raindrops falling".

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by, a week in which I was very busy with renovating the bedroom for our grandchildren and inbetween those renovating actions I posted our regular episodes of Carpe Diem and a few other features. The bedroom for the grandchildren is almost ready and then we can starting decorating it.

This week's first stanza of our Tan Renga is a haiku written by Jazzbumpa of Retirement Pastels and the goal for the challenge is to complete the Tan Renga by writing the second stanza (7-7 syllables). The Tan Renga looks very familiar to the Tanka but with one difference. A Tanka is written by one poet and the Tan Renga is written by two poets, it's a short chain poem. Let me first give you all the haiku written by Jazzbumpa (JzB):

green leaves turn orange
amid the colors we see
cold raindrops falling

What a wonderful haiku. JzB wrote it in respons to our first episode of Carpe Diem goes back to it's roots. I was completly 'knocked out' as I read this one.
As I make my round along all of your wonderful post and write my comments I ran on a regular base into wonderful haiku, by the way all of your haiku are wonderful, which are really gems, diamonds or masterpieces. On my rounds I have already asked several haijin for permission to use their haiku for a Tan Renga Challenge and 'till now every one is giving me that permission which I am grateful for.
What a wonderful community of haijn we have here at Carpe Diem. I am honored to be your host and that makes me also humble. Thank you all for the joy and love which I can sense through all of your nice haiku and comments on my posts.

I think we have made Carpe Diem a big success through respect, acceptation, love and so on for each other. We have become one big family of great haijin and that makes me happy and proud. It gives me hope for the future of Carpe Diem. For sure I am looking forward our second year, starting next October with a very festive month of prompts suggested by you all my friends and the Specials of our featured haiku poet Garry Gay.

Back to our feet (smiles). This is a new Tan Renga Challenge and it's again a beauty. As you all know next November we have our first Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge month in which I will challenge you every day to write a second stanza for a given haiku by one of our family-members, classical and modern haiku-poets. If you would like to contribute haiku for that Tan Renga Challenge month as the first stanza of the Tan Renga, please let me know. You can let me know that by saying it in the comments field or by sending an email to:

tanrengachallengemonth@gmail.com

I have already made the Logo for that Tan Renga Challenge Month and I love to share that already here with you. I hope you all like it:

The goal of the Tan Renga Challenge is to write a second stanza (7-7) in respons of the first stanza (5-7-5). In that way you make the Tan Renga complete. The first stanza, a haiku (this week by JzB), is 5-7-5 syllables (don't take it to hard, don't make it a counted verse) and the second stanza has 7-7 syllables. To post your completion please copy and paste the first stanza into your post and enclose your second stanza.

Stanza 1 (5-7-5):

green leaves turn orange
amid the colors we see
cold raindrops falling       (JzB)

Stanza 2 (7-7):

???????????????
???????????????           (Your respons)

Credits: Autumn leaves

My attempt to complete this Tan Renga:

green leaves turn orange
amid the colors we see
cold raindrops falling       (JzB)

summer has passed away
with tears in my eyes I say "goodbye"      (Chèvrefeuille, your host)


This Tan Renga Challenge will stay on till October 4th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post on that same day (I hope) our next Tan Renga Challenge. For now ... have fun, be inspired to complete this Tan Renga.