!! Open for your submissions next Sunday March 17th at 7:00 PM (CET) !!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Time flies when you have fun they say, but time flies really fast. It's again time for a new weekend meditation and after that first Light Retreat, started today, I have another challenge for you. As you all know in my opinion there were five great haiku poets, or as I call them "The Big Five". Maybe you know which haiku poets I mean with the big five?
Yes ... I knew you all would know it. The "big five" are Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki and Chiyo-Ni. This weekend I love to challenge you with a new episode of "Renga With ..." This weekend that will be a Renga With ... The Big Five.
I have chosen a two haiku by Basho and of the other four I have chosen one haiku. It's up to you to create a renga with those haiku. You can choose your own "line-up" and I hope you will try to "close" the chain by a ageku (closing verse) that refers back to the hokku (starting verse).
Here are the haiku to work with:
wisteria beans
let's make that a theme for haikai
a flower fruit
how glorious
young green leaves
flash in the sun
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
garden butterfly
as the baby crawls, it flies―
crawls close, flutters on
© Issa
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| Plum Blossom |
in nooks and corners
cold remains:
flowers of the plum
© Yosa Buson (tr. RH Blyth)
the wild geese take flight
low along the railroad tracks
in the moonlit night
© Masaoka Shiki
the flowering branch of the plum
gives its scent
to him who broke it off
© Chiyo-Ni
A wonderful range of haiku by these five haiku poets and you, my dear haijin, can enjoy the opportunity to create a renga with these five great haiku poets by adding your two-lined stanza.
I hope you all will have a wonderful weekend with a lot of inspiration. I am looking forward to your renga with the big five.
This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday March 17th at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until March 24th at noon (CET). Have a wonderful weekend.
