!! Open for your submissions next Sunday November 10th at 7:00 PM (CET) !!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Sorry for being late with publishing our new Weekend Meditation, but here it is. This weekend I love to give you the possibility to write a Renga with Matsuo Basho (1644-1694). I have selected six beautiful haiku written by him and it's up to you to create the Renga by adding your two-lined stanza.
This time I have chosen for six haiku which he wrote in the last years of his life. In the last years of his life Basho traveled a lot and in those years he created his masterpiece "Oku No Hosomichi" (The Small Road Into The High North), that haibun has become a classic piece of literature and is renown around the world.
Here are the six haiku to work with. You can choose your own "line-up" and have to try to "complete the chain" through the Hokku (starting verse) and the Ageku (closing verse). Enjoy this challenge.
spring rain
trickling into the wasp's nest
a leaky roof
blooming wildly
among the peach trees
first cherry blossoms
butterflies and birds
restlessly they rise up
a cloud of flowers
coming to the eye
especially at this time
May's Mount Fuji
life's journey
plowing the patch of rice field
back and forth
the lettuce
leaves are just as green
eggplant soup
© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
* all the above haiku were extracted from Jane Reichhold's "Basho, The Complete Haiku".
This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday, November 10th at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until November 17th at noon (CET). Have a great weekend and enjoy the "renga-session" with Basho.
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