Tan Renga

  • 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

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  • 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.  

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  • Summertime Song

    This week’s challenge at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is to make Chèvrefeuille’s Tan Renga complete by adding your two-lined stanza to the his haiku: silence found the colorful sky at sunset – cicadas sing   © Chèvrefeuille   their summertime song fireflies sway in twilight’s breeze    

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  • 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.    

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  • Broken Sunflower

    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  

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