In sync with nature (Tan Renga)

warm rain
the spring moon returns
to the rusty can

©Yu Chang

warm rain
the spring moon returns
to the rusty can
rhythm of raindrops
a lovers’ cadence

CDHK – Tan Renga Challenge with Yu Chang

toasting (tan renga)

boiled rice slop
his old lady fans the treat
with evening coolness (Basho)

cups of green tea clink
toast of love and family

chanting songs,
grandmother’s warm embrace
cousins holding hands

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #91, Basho’s boiled rice slop

briny beads (tan renga)

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When I saw this prompt and Jane Reichhold’s haiku referring to the shape of “wild rivers” and “ferns” I could not help but be right at my special spot by the river rapids and so I decided to add my thoughts in a Tan Renga. I hope that’s okay.

wild rivers
the joy unfurls
in ferns © Jane Reichhold

grief spills briny beads
white-water sweetens © Tournesol ’15

call of seagulls (Tan Renga)

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe

shamanic journey
a red dragonfly comes
to guide the canoe
songs of gulls inspire
rumble of the rapids

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #88, Jane Reichhold’s “shamanic journey”

spring’s notice (tan renga)

from a treetop
emptiness dropped down
in a cicada shell (Basho)

interrupted grief
life still goes on

cicada
turns a new leaf
fresh shrills

nature moves forward
abandons yesterday

fleeting hope (tan renga)

feeling alone
in the woods around Edo –
just the autumn wind (Yozakura)
colorful leaves dancing
through the abondend city (Chèvrefeuille)

feeling alone
in the woods around Edo
just the autumn wind
whirlwind of panache
fleeting splash of colours

blurs cluttered minds
lost in a sea
self-pity