The challenge for this weekend meditation at Carpe Diem Haiku is to create Tan Renga with the below three given haiku by Jane Reichhold. A Tan Renga looks like a Tanka, but is written by two poets instead of one poet. It’s a kind of chained poem. You have to create the second stanza of each Tan Renga.
a certain calm
in summer’s passing
flowers
in bloom but quivering
twilight chills the air.
flat seas
with the butterfly’s flight
a certain calm
moon rises slow and full
rippling gentle waters
the hour silent
before the birds awake
waves on sand
bare footprints erased
with yesterday’s sand castles
aka, The Abject Muse 
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