At Carpe Diem we have a hokku by Jackie Le Poidevin to complete to form a Tan Renga. After reading Georgia’s at Bastetandsekhmet, I loved her completion and decided to add on to hers. I reread my completion and noticed it seems to fit well alone with Jackie Le Poidevin’s hokku but tells a more complete story with Georgia’s, so here it is:

Bare branches touch
Over the lane where we walk,
Fingers entwined.

© Jackie Le Poidevin

young lovers meet in winter
under bare skeleton trees

each gust of wind
down the sunlit naked lane
invites cuddling   © G.s.k. ‘15

safe in our embrace
remnants of Saint Valentine’s

beneath starry skies
big dipper sneaks a peak
of our first kiss  © Tournesol ’15

sweet stolen kisses of love
open to the universe

live love embraces
the stars can only envy
young lovers kisses © G.s.k. ‘15

a chill brings us closer
calms trembling forms

so naive we were
was not the chilly breeze
that made us shiver. © Tournesol ‘15

and hot streams flowed intrepid
in the our hidden garden

no winter treed lane
our hands and bodies entwined
we walked together © G.s.k. ‘15

a turtle dove purrs
wishing us eternal love

gazing into
each other’s spellbound eyes
we kissed © Tournesol ‘15

that was thirty years ago
winter has frosted our hair

we walk together
o’er the lane bare branches touch
with fingers entwined  © G.s.k. ’15