Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Wednesday (8) New Years Morning

Tan Renga

It is a short chained poem written by two poets. It looks very similar with Tanka, but Tanka is written by one poet.

You have to write the second stanza through associating on scenes in the haiku (the starting verse).

This Tan Renga with the given haiku is taken from Jane Reichhold online “Dictionary of Haika” from the season New Year.

New Year's morning

the first day begins

in the same dream  (Jane Reichhold}

bells were ringing this morning

echoing around the world   

2020 Elsie Hagley

Tan Renga Wednesday

#Alphabet Haiku: This Week - Letter T - Tuatara

 #Alphabet Haiku: This Week - Letter T - Tuatara 

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Alphabet Haiku which is a Weekly Challenge of Abigail Gronway, this week it is the letter (T)

two tuataras

together taste tepid treats

trusting true tonic

How to pronounce tuatara:   too-uh-tahr-uh

Author note: What is a Tuatara is a small to medium sized reptiles endemic to New Zealand, can live well over 100 years. Tuatara are greenish brown and grey, and measure up to 80 cm (31 in) from head to tail-tip, their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the lower jaw, what is  more unusual in having a pronounced photoreceptive eye, the “third eye”. They are able to hear, although no external ear is present, also have excellent vision. Their reproduction is very slowly, taking 10 to 20 years to reach sexual maturity. Males don’t have a penis, reproducing by the male lifting the female tail and placing his vent over hers.Mating occurs in midsummer, females mate and lay eggs once every four years, their eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell which she digs and lays into the ground.

Their diet consists of frogs, lizards, and bird’s eggs, chicks, beetles, crickets, and spiders, today the tuatara is nearly extinct on the mainland of New Zealand, only living on small island around NZ.

#Alphabet Haiku: This Week - Letter S - Scorpion

 #Alphabet Haiku: This Week - Letter S - Scorpion

Photo Credit 

#Alphabet Haiku Challenge or AHC

 Alphabet Haiku, is a Weekly Challenge of Abigail Gronway, this week it is the letter (S)

surveys seriously 

show some scorpions species 

survive starvation

• Every word in the haiku must begin with the same letter.
• When written in English, it generally follows the syllabic pattern 5-7-5
• Haiku/Senryu Poetry – Here is an in-depth description of Haiku/Senryu Poem (also called human haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Senryu is usually written in the present tense and only references to some aspect of human nature or emotions. They possess no references to the natural world and thus stand out from nature/seasonal haiku.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Carpe Diem #1541 Late Autumn Evening

Carpe Diem #1541 Late Autumn Evening

The challenge today is to create a short renga with the given haiku, both themed "evening", with a maximum of eight stanza and at least four stanza.

Here are the two haiku by Jane we worked with: they are in red, my reply is blue.
© Jane Reichhold

Late Autumn Evening

evening comes

wrapped in sea fog

tied with webs

falling on my damp body

as the moon hides behind clouds

evening sea fog

descending into sun-dried grass

sweaty lovers

lay quietly wrapped together 

moist evening air cooling them

How to create a Renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem’s end.

Three Haiku Poems - Wildfires

 Linked to: Poets United

Three Haiku Poems - Wildfires

so much energy

flames approach with a strong force

resisting nothing

fire burning brightly

quick flash as the flames leapt high

speeding fast as sound

trees add oxygen

making the flames leap higher

without fuel it’s out

Haiku – is a unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. 

It is created by a vision, it paints a mental image in the reader’s mind.

Senryu - consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.is usually written in the present tense and only references to some aspect of human nature or emotions. They possess no references to the natural world and thus stand out from nature/seasonal haiku

Alphabet Haiku Letter R - Rattlesnake

 #Alphabet Haiku: This Week - Letter R - Rattlesnake

Photo Credit 

#Alphabet Haiku Challenge or AHC

 Alphabet Haiku, which is a Weekly Challenge of Abigail Gronway, this week it is the letter (R)

relaxed rattlesnake

realistically rambles

rolling rapidly

• Every word in the haiku must begin with the same letter.
• When written in English, it generally follows the syllabic pattern 5-7-5
• Haiku/Senryu Poetry – Here is an in-depth description of Haiku/Senryu Poem (also called human haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. 
• Senryu is usually written in the present tense and only references to some aspect of human nature or emotions. They possess no references to the natural world and thus stand out from nature/seasonal haiku.

Shadorma Poem - Autumn Harvest

Shadorma Poem - Autumn Harvest

quality

crispy firm apples

low hanging

for picking 

ripe and red in the orchard

enjoy the flavour

nice yummy

pure sweet juicy fruit

excellent

quantity

pick a basket of ripe fruit

full of nutrition

Shadorma Poetry– is a Spanish poetic form. A poem of six lines 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllables no set rhyme scheme. It can have many stanzas, as long as each follows the meter.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley