Category: Carpe Diem
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One Candle Burning
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #69: Returning to Now. This week our mission is to create a Haiku, and then a Troiku out of that. One candle burning monks deep in meditation Buddha’s dimpled cheeks. One candle burning snow melts on Tibetan peaks all is connected. Monks deep in meditation their stomachs growling No one notices.…
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Tan Renga with Jane
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…
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Echoes
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #53 Renga With Basho #10 “summer’s night” The goal is to add the two-lined stanza of approximately 14 syllables and make the renga complete. Your closing verse, the “ageku”, has to close the chain through association on the “hokku”. Here are the six (6) haiku to work with and create your…
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Broken Sunflower
Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Blog, we are to create a Tan Renga from a Haiku: broken sunflower torn apart by a rainstorm — puddles on the path © Chèvrefeuille where children splash and play; thirsty animals drink their fill
aka, The Abject Muse 