Tag Archives: Tan Renga

Tan-Renga Challenge May 9, 2016

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Oops… Looks like I used the incorrect prompt stanza for today’s Tan-Renga.  Here is the one I should have used, by Georgia.  Hers are the first three lines, mine are the bottom two. (A Tan-Renga is a poem written by two people.  The first issues a challenge, the second answers it)

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Dykstra-Brown photo

a dream in a dream
sand slipping through old fingers
autumn leaves turn red

replaced in time with green
and sandcastles shaped by a newer touch.

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.mx/2016/05/carpe-diem-tan-renga-challenge-month_8.html

 

Carpe Diem Tan-Renga Challenge, May 9

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new Tan Renga…morning glory!

The idea is to take a three-line stanza, written by one poet…and write a two-line stanza to complete the Tan Renga. The first three lines were written by Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775)

 

morning glory!
the well-bucket entangled,
I ask for water.

and my answer is given
in rain.

Tan Renga Challenge

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A Tan Renga is a poem written by two poets. This challenge asked participants to write a second stanza for the given haiku.  The first stanza is a haiku written by  © Chèvrefeuille.  I added on the second stanza, also in haiku form.

in the moonlight
Wisteria flowers look fragile –
a gust of wind

invites them to
dance with their shadows,
then smooth their skirts and rest again.

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.mx/2016/05/carpe-diem-tan-renga-challenge-month_2.html