Tag: Basho
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Read more: The Color of Lonely
Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: I have chosen to challenge you with a haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1784), one of the “Big Five” haiku poets. As Buson started creating haiku he used his own way of writing, because he…
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Read more: Heart Grief
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai :This haiku (or maybe more a senryu) isn’t really easy to work with, so this will be a “real” challenge to make the Tan Renga complete. who is it that grieves, the wind blowing through his…
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Read more: Fusion
Written for Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Here are the three haiku to use for your “fusion”. Three haiku by Basho (1644-1694) in a translation by renown Jane reichhold (1937-2016): falling sick on a journey my dream goes…
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: Stain
Today at the MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie Blog, it’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille. Our task is to revise this Haiku by Basho: In these drops of dew Let me wash as a trial The dust of this world. Morning dewdrops heal, cleanse this…
