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As you all know I think we have every Wednesday a so called Ghost Writer post and today I have a nice GW-post for you all. It's a bit different we the other GW-posts, but it is also an example of an other way to be Ghost Writer for CDHK.
Managua Hamish Gunn of Cabin Fever has emailed me a few wonderful photos for inspiration. So this GW-post is similar with our Imagination features in which I share a photo, picture, painting or something else for your inspiration.
Here is Managua Hamish Gunn's photo which I have chosen:
As I saw this photo the very first time (a few days ago) the first thing which came in mind was the Ancient Celtic Oracle called "Ogham". This photo shows you Luis (in Gaelic) or Rowan. This tree is a very sacred tree in the Ogham tradition of the Druids and it stands for protection against the evil eye. In the Celtic culture the people used branches of Rowan (including leaves and fruits) above their door to shield their homes against evil. Rowan is also the Ancient Celtic name for December.
So this GW-post asks you to be inspired by this photo. Have fun!
Now it is up to you to write haiku inspired on the photo. This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will stay open until August 15th at noon. I will try to post our next episode, paradise, later on today.
Another week has gone and so it's time for a new Ghost Writer episode ... this week I have a Ghost-Writer post for you by Managua Gunn of Managua Gunn's Cabin Fever and I hope you all like this new GW-post very much.
!! I have published our new CDHK-prompt-list for August ... you can find it HERE !!
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FOREST
I am happy in the forest. The feeling of
serenity that comes from walking in a forest
does not stem from imagination. The natural setting, changing scenery with
seasons
and aromas, breezes all have wonderful benefits, and studies show that time
spent
among trees boosts immune system, lowers blood pressure, accordingly reduces
stress
and improves mood, increases ability to focus, accelerates recovery from
surgery or
illness, increases energy level and improves sleep,: the whole package in fact.
The
Japanese found a term for it: shinrin-yoku. 'forest bathing,' and Japanese
health officials
encourage people to visit forests to relieve stress and improve health. The
secret is in
the science: while we breathe in the fresh air, we breathe in phytoncides, airborne
chemicals that plants give off to protect themselves from insects. Phytoncides
have
antibacterial and antifungal qualities which help plants fight disease. When
people
breathe in these chemicals, their bodies respond by increasing the number and
activity
of a type of white blood cell called natural killer cells or NK. These cells
kill tumorand
virus-infected cells in our bodies. In one study, increased NK activity from a
3-day,
two. night forest bathing trip lasted for more than thirty days. Japanese researchers
are
currently exploring whether exposure to forests can help prevent certain kinds
of
cancer. And spending time in nature, looking at plants, water, birds and other
aspects
of nature gives the cognitive portion of our brain a break, allowing us to
focus better
and renew our ability to be patient.
Patients recover from surgery faster and better when they have a
"green" view.
Hospital patients may be stressed from a variety of factors, including pain,
fear, and
disruption of normal routine. Research found that patients with
"green" views had
shorter postoperative stays, took fewer painkillers, and had slightly fewer
postsurgical
complications compared to those who had no view or a view of a cement wall.
All these are just thoughts of course, for the writer must seek isolation,
whether he
or she likes it or not. So I walk through the forests and hills back to my
train, marvelling
that yet again I found my way.
My task today, as your ghostwriter at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, is to ask you to
take a
pen and pad of paper to the forest nearest to where you live. It is important
you stand
among the trees to compose your haiku – please feel free to add some notes
about the
forest you have chosen, or the collection of trees or plantation.
Here are a couple from Basho, in the Forest theme.
won't you come and see
loneliness? Just one leaf
from the kiri tree Cedar umbrellas, off
to Mount Yoshimo for
the cherry blossoms
I look forward to reading your haiku from your
forest! Thanks again to Kristjaan.
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What a wonderful post, don't you think so too? Not an easy to read one, but I think it inspires you in a special way ... and what an idea it is to take paper and pencil with you outside and make a walk through the forest. Let nature itself inspire you ...
This GW-post is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until July 18th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, the third haiku by Issa, later on. For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
A new Ghost Writer Wednesday has come and this week Managua Gunn of From My Forest is our Ghost Writer. He has written a wonderful post for our inspiration. Next week (June 18th) Kuheli will be our Ghost Writer, but that's for later ...
I have an announcement to make: A few days ago I emailed Jane Reichhold to say thanks for the permission to use her kigo. She is very kind and she complimented us for the cheerness and joy which we have for haiku. I also learned that Jane is recovering of a broken back. Last April she had an accident in which she broke her back. She told me that she is recovering from that and that she will skip the Summer edition of her online haiku magazine Lynx. She hopes to be back in the editors seat in October as the Autumn edition of Lynx will be created. She was that kind with her compliments and she will mention our haiku-community in the October edition of Lynx. I feel honored that Jane is that positive about Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. I send her an email in response with best wishes for a full recovery ... please remember her in your prayers and thoughts ... Thank you.
I met them
as they rode by me in the forest. She was sitting on the back of the bicycle,
and I said "Salam Alaikum," in greeting as they rode by. They both smiled and stopped, and joined me for part of the walk in the forest.
We got talking as we walked. I told them of my love for the desert, how I'd
lived there for a decade or more altogether. They were from Syria, now living
in Finland. The woman was the talker, the man the smiler. She was well-read,
and discussed literature with the passion of one who seldom has the chance to,
and had similar political views to us all, in that we want politicians to stop
taking us for a ride.
``If it were not for the war, my husband and I would not be here,´´ she said.
Her husband, Abbas, smiled.
``But its not like you think,´´ she continued. ``Abbas was my student, in
university, he is of the Shi'a faith. I am Sunni. Our friends in Syria are
enemies of each other. By tradition we marry within our faith, and by tradition
a university lecturer does not marry her student, either!´´ she laughed, almost
a coy giggle.
Abbas was gentle, and quiet, and let his wife Rania do the talking: ``Abbas was
about to marry. In Syria it happens quickly. His family had met her family, his
mother had given her blessing, and he was due to meet his wife to be once
before marrying.´´
``Yes,´´ said Abbas, ``I nearly married the wrong woman,´´ he smiled.
``When the bombs came they were just leaving my classroom,´´ Ranya said.
``Abbas took care of me, and sheltered me. The fighting erupted in the streets
around where I live. It became very dangerous for me.´´
We continued walking through the peaceful forest I walk in every morning, Abbas
pushing his bicycle, the birds chirping and the breeze comforting.
``Yes,´´ said Abbas.
``He was clever,´´ said Ranya, ``he put himself in a position where he was
forced to marry me, my house was destroyed and he took me to his room and
allowed me to stay there. Of course by then if he had not married me there
would have been serious problems. But we had to leave Syria, that was
obvious.´´
``If it had not been for the war you would not be together.´´
``That is the tragic truth, yes,´´ she said.
I watched them cycle away, promising to meet them again sometime, and took
their photograph as they left. They were just another couple with a story to
tell that I had met in the forest, but a story that touched me.
Let's see if their story touched you, too, in your haiku. Thanks to Kristjaan
for allowing me to tell their story
A wonderful story I think and it touched me as it did touch Managua, but how to catch that in a haiku? That will not be an easy task, but I have to try ... It's not a haiku ... finally it turned out to become a senryu ... here it is:
two hearts together torn apart by war and faith finding peace within
Now it is up to you my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun with us all here at CDHK.
This Ghost Writer episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 13th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, Coolness, later on today.
It's time again for a new CD Tan Renga Challenge ... time flies. For this week I have chosen a haiku composed by Managua of "Fresh From a Hermit's Forest" in response of our prompt "Raven".
As you all know the goal of this Tan Renga Challenge is to write/compose a second stanza (classical 7-7 syllables) towards the given haiku. You don't have to use the 7-7 rule, but if you would like to do so, well feel free ...
Here is the haiku by Managua which is our first stanza (5-7-5) of this Tan Renga. let the
ravens come
let them smile as they pick the flesh
from the battlefield
It's a ''dark-toned'' haiku, but that is also haiku and I think Raven is associated to darkness and death. It will not be easy to write/compose a second stanza towards this haiku to make the Tan Renga complete, but ... I have to try ...
let the
ravens come
let them smile as they pick the flesh
from the battlefield (Managua)
all what remains of this battle the sweet dreams of green grass (Chèvrefeuille)
I think this is a great second stanza it's inspired on the day after the battle as peace has returned and with a haiku composed by Basho in mind. That haiku by Basho is the following:
summer
grass--
all that remains
of warriors' dreams
Well ... it's a real challenge this week so good luck ... have fun, be inspired and share your continuation or completion of this Tan Renga with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This episode of our Tan Renga Challenge is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until Friday May 23rd at noon (CET).
Think of a people, who
never planted a bomb, never took over a territory or country, indeed never invaded
a country, who love to sing and dance, and indeed are great dancers and
musicians. Think of a people who are Europe's largest minority, who are 1
Million strong in United States and Brazil.
An ethnic people
originally from Rajastan. A people who love freedom yet have been routinely denied
it throughout history. A people who lost 1.5 million of their own in the
Porajmos, the Holocaust, for which they receive nothing. A people whose love of
family is strong, as strong as their pull of the road.
Romani women sing and dance
They are easily the most abused minority in Europe, and always have been. To be
a roma a few hundred years ago in some European countries meant having your
nose cut off. Nowadays you can still be murdered in Hungary by a militia group,
or ethically isolated and fingerprinted in Italy, or thrown out of France with
a few hundred euro stuffed in pocket.
Romani Flag
Today April 8th is International Romany
Day. Expect it to be routinely ignored as usual, by companies like google, who
despite changing their logo for numerus other festivities stil refuse to do so
for International Romani Day, an act of blatant racism. But who cares? Who will
speak for the roma?
Proposed google logo for International Romany Day 8th April
I don't remember not
feeling an affinity for gypsies, or the roma people, so have chosen this as my topic
for my ghostwriter post at Carpe Diem Haiku. I have known a few roma people,
and once shared love with a roma woman in Hungary. We didn't speak each other's
language but shared real happiness, a lot of fun and a few roads together.
I also stayed with a
romany family in Romania – the country's name is not connected to theirs – for a
few weeks. What a wonderful family they were. A US Peace Corps friend of mine
called Dave and I were travelling in Romania, and a roma woman and her daughter
just stopped us and invited us to their home for lunch. We stayed weeks. They
were not a rich family at all, and were poor even in Romania, which itself is a
poor country. But I have never seen so much love and miss them dearly to this
day.
Here's a sampling of
romani music:
and here's two roma
haiku, or senryu for the first, to be precise:
we are silent
but our hearts
are full of unuttered
words
from Dezider Banga
wheel turns road calls -home again
by Janos Balog
and following are my
haiku for this theme of roma, or gypsy.
by the campfire she dances to the
violin only the stars
are still
I am not claiming this
is a good haiku, but it does do what I think is important in a haiku – the
stars might dance in poetry, but in haiku no – the flames move, the violin
plays, the grass weaves in the breeze and even the wagon wheels creak as the
temperature changes. But the stars are.
I look forward to your haiku on the theme
of the roma/romani or gypsy! Thanks again to Kristjaan.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until April 10th 11.59 AM (CET). I will post our new Ghost-Writer episode, this time by Ese of Ese's Voice, later on today. For now have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, This is it ... our last Tan Renga Challenge of 2013, next week a whole New Year has already started and than Angi Inspired will ''deliver'' our first Tan Renga Challenge of 2014 ... I hope to continue this Challenge every week's Friday and I hope that I can (and may) use haiku written by you my dear friends. Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is a wonderfull haiku-family and we make this Haiki Kai with eachother. This week's Tan Renga Challenge is started by Managua Gunn (or Yer Pirate) and he wrote this in response on the fourth Special haiku by Hando, our featured haiku-poet for this month. You can find his post HERE
puddles on
the forest path
frozen with leaves and pine cones
no place for stars to play
(c) Managua Gunn It's the goal to write a second stanza to this one and complete in that way the Tan Renga. Here is my attempt to complete this Tan Renga started by Managua. puddles on the forest path frozen with leaves and pine cones no place for stars to play (Managua Gunn) reflections of thousand colors New Year's Eve (Chèvrefeuille) I couldn''t do it in a different way ... this second stanza was really the first which came in my mind. It's the time of year I think (smiles).
This episode of our Tan Renga Challenge will stay on until January 3rd 11.59 AM (CET) and is NOW OPEN for your submissions. Have fun, be inspired and share your completed Tan Renga with us all here at our Haiku Kai.
Another busy day. I have already published a new episode of our feature ''distillation'' and I have prepared a few new episodes of other features and I was busy with completing the prompt-list for December. And now I have to write the new Tan Renga Challenge episode ...
Today our Tan Renga is started with a haiku written by Managua Gunn of Coffee with yer buccaneer. Managua wrote this haiku in response on the episode about Kireji of our ''back to Roots'' feature. That episode you can re-visit HERE. For sure worth reading I think.
Here is the starting verse of this Tan Renga Challenge:
in hidden
places
under the porch floorboards-
cherry blossoms
(c) Managua Gunn
And here is my attempt to write a second stanza to this Tan Renga:
in hidden
places
under the porch floorboards-
cherry blossoms (Managua Gunn)
in the light of the full moon making love under the cherry (Chèvrefeuille)
Hm ... not a strong completion, but the first stanza brought this imagery in my mind, so I had to use it. And now it's up to you my dear haijin, visitors and travelers.
This episode of our Tan Renga Challenge Month will be open for your submissions until November 18th 11.59 AM (CET) and you can start submitting tonight at 7.00 PM (CET). So have fun, be inspired and share your completed Tan Renga with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
Our festive month of Carpe Diem's first anniversary is almost over. I have had fun with all of your wonderful prompts and it was a joy to read all your wonderful haiku, senryu, tanka and other poetry forms. It wasn't the most easy month, but I enjoyed preparing it. As you will know our next month we will have our first Tan Renga Challenge month in which I ask you every day to make a Tan Renga complete. Every Tan Renga is started with a haiku written by one of you, my dear friends and haiku-family members. I am looking forward to that month ... it will be a challenge to prepare all the daily posts, but ... whatever .... I enjoy what I do ..
Today we share haiku on Machu Picchu (provided by Managua) that wonderful Inca place high in the Andes. A lot of people who have been there say it's a very magical, mystical and spiritual place to be and as I look at the photos of that great place I do believe that it's an one in a life experience to be there.
Machu
Picchu bears a unique testimony to the Inca civilization. Macchu Picchu is an
outstanding example of man's interaction with his natural environment.
Standing 2,430 m above sea level, in the midst of a tropical mountain forest in
an extraordinarily beautiful setting, Machu Picchu was probably the most
amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height. Its giant walls,
terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous
rock escarpments. The natural setting, on the eastern slopes of the Andes,
encompasses the upper Amazon basin with its rich diversity of flora and fauna.
Machu Picchu covers 32,500 ha in some of the scenically most attractive
mountainous territory of the Peruvian Andes. As the last stronghold of the
Incas and of superb architectural and archaeological importance, Machu Picchu
is one of the most important cultural sites in Latin America; the stonework of
the site remains as one of the world's great examples of the use of a natural
raw material to provide outstanding architecture which is totally appropriate
to the surroundings. The surrounding valleys have been cultivated continuously
for well over 1,000 years, providing one of the world's greatest examples of a
productive man-land relationship; the people living around Machu Picchu
continue a way of life which closely resembles that of their Inca ancestors,
being based on potatoes, maize and llamas. Machu Picchu also provides a secure
habitat for several endangered species, notably the spectacled bear, one of the
most interesting species in the area. Others animals include: dwarf brocket,
the otter, long-tailed weasel, pampas cat and the vulnerable ocelot, boa, the
Andean cock of the rock, and the Andean condor.
The natural vegetation is of humid and very humid lower montane forest of the
subtropical region, mainly with genera and ferns of the Cyathea and palms.
Set on the vertiginous site of a granite mountain sculpted by erosion and
dominating a meander in the Rio Urubamba, Machu Picchu is a world renowned
archaeological site. The construction of this amazing city, set out according
to a very rigorous plan, comprises one of the most spectacular creations of the
Inca Empire. It appears to date from the period of the two great Incas,
Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1438-71) and Tupac Inca Yupanqui (1472-93). The
function of this city situated at least 100 km from the capital, Cuzco, has not
been formulated which are not verifiable given the absence of written
documentation and sufficiently explicit material evidence.
Without
making a judgment as to their purpose, several quite individual quarters may be
noted in the ruins of Machu Picchu: a quarter 'of the Farmers' near the
colossal terraces whose slopes were cultivated and transformed into hanging
gardens; an 'industrial' quarter; a 'royal' quarter and a 'religious' quarter.
Inca architecture reveals itself here in all of its force with the titanic
earthen works which multiplied the platforms, leveled the rocky relief,
constructed ramps and stairways and literally sculpted the mountain whose
cyclopean constructions appear to be a prolongation of nature.
Isn't it a wonderful place ... I would love to visit it .... yeah in my dreams I think (smiles).
high in the mountains a city built for the beauty of the Sun - Machu Picchu
spiritual place feeling in touch with the Inca - Machu Picchu
close to heaven high up in the mountains I feel close to God
Well .... I hope you liked this post and I hope it will inspire you to write haiku. This prompt will stay on 'til October 31th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our last episode of our festive month, Galaxy (provided by Bjorn), later on today around 7.00 PM (CET).
!! Machu Picchu is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!
I am late with this new episode ... sorry. I am in the nightshift until next Tuesday, so I haven't enough time to write big episodes or even post on time.
Today we start with our worldtour along the Ancient World Wonders and we start off in Egypt at the Pyramid of Giza. Managua Gunn provided this prompt. Because of lack of time I have decided to start this tour with only a picture of the Pyramid of Giza and challenge you all to write haiku only with the picture (as we do in our "Imagination" feature).
Well ... I think this will be fun ... come on go with us on trip along the Ancient World Wonders. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with our Haiku Kai.
highway to the gods pharaohs trip to eternity - Leo shines above
This prompt will stay on 'til October 21th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, another nice haiku by Garry Gay, later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). !! Pyramid of Giza is now open for your submissions !!
Thank you all for your kind congratulations for our first anniversary and thank you all for your friendship and participation. Without your friendship and participation Carpe Diem Haiku Kai couldn't exist. This festive anniversary month has started with 'eclipse' yesterday and I have read wonderful haiku on the diversity of meaning and using of 'eclipse'. It makes me proud to see that you all are that enthusiastic to write an every day haiku.
We read in our yesterday post about Myths and Legends around eclipses, wonderful stories as I read also sometimes in your posts accompanied by a haiku on the given prompt. Carpe Diem Haiku Kai isn't a Myth or a Legend, maybe we once will become a Myth or a Legend, but that's not up to us.
Our prompt for today is also known by Myth and Legend. What was it? How did they build it? Is it build by extra-terrestrial life? How old is it? Did they use it for worship? Where people killed there as an offering to the gods to please them?
This circle of big stones speaks to our imagination and to the imagination of scientists, spiritists, wiccan and pagan and modern druids.
Let's go ... go with me to ancient Brittain and watch how they made it and used it ... let's go to Stonehenge (provided by Managua Gunn), our prompt for today.
Stonehenge
To introduce this episode further I have written a haibun inspired on one of the meanings of Stonehenge. Stonehenge was, as some sources say, a place for healing rituals.
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"Go!" She screamed. "Go Coilin, go fetch the druid! Your father has become strangely ill". Coilin looked at his mother and from her to his father. He felt tears behind his eyes as he saw the bewildered eyes, the pain of his father. His whole body shook and his father couldn't stop that. He had torn apart his clothes. Coilin saw the red pussing spots on his body and as he saw his fathers manlyhood he looked away to his mother again. His mother wept and her eyes were red of her tears. She shook her head and whispered a prayer. As she looked up and saw Coilin she once again asked him to fetch the druid.
scream of a crow around stonehenge's megalithes - healing ritual
A few minutes later Coilin and the druid of his village stepped into the house. The druid kneeled next to the bed of Coilin's father. With his hands he moved in a specific way over the body, not touching it for real. Sometimes he whispered words which sounded like magical spells.
Coilin looked at his mom. He walked towards her and took her hands. "dad will be ok mom", he whispered. His mom tried to smile, but her smile looked like a grimace.
eyes filled with tears stained red in white souls of heart - deadly ill husband
"Your husband is seriously ill Sibeal", the druid said and shook his head. "Very seriously ill". Sibeal screamed and wept with her hands before her face shaking her head. "Is he going to die?" Coilin asked. His voice broken by his tears. The druid looked at him. His bright eyes sppok all Coilin wished for. "We will bring your dad to Stonehenge Colin. I will perform a healing ritual and the gods will give your dad his health back".
seeking for a cure ancient order of druids performing rituals
As they arrived at Stonehenge the druid laid Coilin's father on a dolerite altar-stone in the middle. Coilin's father was completely naked on the altar on a thin layer of straw and grass. Around the altar the druid had made four campfires each one in one of the four winds, The campfires were on fire and the smoke smelled of several sacred herbs which the druid had thrown in. It was almost noon as the druid started his ritual.
perfumed fires enchants the circle of stones - the cry of pigeons
He chanted a magical and mysterious sounding spell, and his assistents sang with him. The druid fell in a trance and around him a golden aura, like the sun, could be seen. With his hands, not touching the body of Coilin's father, he moved over the body of Coilin's dad. Between the body and the druid's hands one could see a violet or indigo colored light. Coilin's father didn't move. His eyes were closed and you had to look very good to see him breath. He looked like he was asleep.
druids chanting mystery and magic together resonates in the air
The ritual took a long time, but after one hour it was finished. The druid fell to earth, the campfires went out. The air was filled with the sweet scent of the magical and mysterious herbs the druid had used in the campfires. The only sounds which were heard were the buzzing of bees and insects, the sweet songs of birds and the rustling of the leaves by the breeze. Deep silence ...
deep silence only the sound of nature fills the sky
With a sigh Coilin's father opened his eyes and came up to sit. He looked around him and saw were he was. His body looked normal, no more red pussing spots. "What am I doing in Stonehenge?" he asked himself. "And why am I naked?" Coilin saw his father sitting on the altar and ran to him. "Father!" he cried. "Stonehenge has healed you". His father looked at him and shook his head.
Stonehenge magic sacred knowledge hidden - circle filled with mist
(The above video is music composed by Adrian von Ziegler, in December he will provide the musical prompts. This composition is titled "Legend", and is Celtic music)
I hope you liked this episode and the tale. To me it was fun preparing it for you all and I love to share another haiku on Stonehenge here:
Stonehenge mystery follows the way of the sun - built by unknown man
This prompt will stay on 'till October 3rd 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode of Carpe Diem later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). That will be: Our first Carpe Diem Special by our featured haiku-poet of this month Garry Gay. !! This episode of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is now open for your submissions !!
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.
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