Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
For this Tan Renga Challenge, we had to take an original piece by Santoka Taneda (Tr. John Stevens) and add a second 14-syllable stanza to it.
Here is the final piece:
Autumn heat –
my begging bowl
is full of rice.
The breeze is rich with joy from
summer memories and thoughts.
The prompt was given by Kristjaan at his blog for haiku and Japanese poetry.
Hey, I’ve never known creating Tan Renga was such fun. You learn as you live, quite clearly. My friend, Chevrefeuille, regularly posts challenges and prompts at his awesome blog site, and today, I finally paid attention to this new thing for me. If you need explanation and guidance, you’d better visit his post. And here are my two contributions:
white poppy
it must have bloomed
from a wintry shower
in a hurry before springtime
has donned it with scarlet.
(c) 2017, Basho and MK
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ancient warriors ghosts
mists over the foreign highlands –
waiting for the full moon
the field will find its
forgotten army of tall grass.
(c) 2017, Chevrefeuille and MK