Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
As you maybe can remember last year we had an every week Tan Renga Challenge, but during our pilgrimage-months I hadn't time to prepare those Tan Renga Challenges, so from this month on we will have our Tan Renga Challenge back every friday. For these Tan Renga Challenges I use haiku written by you, my dear haijin, of course after asking permission.
The goal of this Tan Renga Challenge is to complete the Tan Renga by writing the second stanza. Let me tell you a little bit more about Tan Renga. Tan Renga looks very similar to Tanka (5-7-5-7-7), but is not written by one haiku-poet, but by two haiku-poets, it's a kind of collaborative writing.
The first stanza of a Tan Renga, is the haiku (5-7-5) and the second stanza, for asfaras I know it has no special name, has two lines of respectively 7-7 syllables. Of course you don't have to use that 7-7 syllables rule, but if you want to ... please feel free.
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| Credits: The Mountain Shining |
This week's Tan Renga Challenge (number 25) is started by Bastet of "Bastet and Sekhmet's Library" and this is the haiku (the first stanza) of "the mountain shining":
the
mountain shining
first light streaks through the valley
lazy clouds float by
first light streaks through the valley
lazy clouds float by
(c) Bastet
The goal is to write the second stanza to complete the Tan Renga. This is my completion of this Tan Renga.
the mountain shining
first light streaks through the valley
lazy clouds float by (Bastet)
first light streaks through the valley
lazy clouds float by (Bastet)
at the horizon sounds of thunder
and lightning brightens the sky (Chèvrefeuille)
and lightning brightens the sky (Chèvrefeuille)
Well .... now it is up to you to complete this Tan Renga started by Bastet . have fun, be inspired and share your completed Tan Renga with Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
This episode of CD's Tan Renga Challenge will stay open until next friday April 11th 11.59 AM (CET) and is NOW OPEN for your submissions.

