aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Carpe Diem

  • Night of Firefly

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, the Tan Renga Challenge is a Hineri (with a twist) challenge and that means you have to create a Tan Renga and two other stanza, so you have to create not only the second stanza of two lines, but also a third stanza (three lines) and a fourth stanza…

  • Passing Through

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, we are tasked with creating a Tan  Renga using the Haiku below created by Chiyo-Ni. waterweed floating away, despite  the butterfly’s weight on it   © Chiyo-Ni (Tr. Ueda) drifting through a rainbow after a midsummer shower.  

  • Sun Flowers

    The theme for our last weekend-meditation at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai was Sunflower and Ken has created a wonderful haiku to work with and create a Tan Renga with. You have to add the second stanza (2-lines approx. 14 syllables) through association on the scenes in the haiku. Here is that beauty by Ken:  …

  • Cold Moon

    Today’s prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is to create a Tan Renga from Jane Reichhold’s Haiku, below.   bright enough to write a poem the cold moon looks on and patiently waits for my muse to show up.    

  • Renga with Jane Reichhold

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku I challenge you to create a renga with Jane Reichhold’s haiku. As you all know you may choose your own “line-up” and try to create a “closed chain” through an association on the “hokku” (starting verse) in the “ageku” (closing verse). You have to add the two lined stanza (approximately…