Renga with Jane – Moonlight Moving

Carpe Diem #1817 Renga With … Jane Reichhold … Moonlight Moving

moonlight moving
with the gate as the servant girl
takes an evening

escaping reality
for an hours leave

morning fog
dreams not buried
deep enough

fantasies of passion
Add color to pale cheeks

Saturday rain
desire by a warm stove
for an affair

she giggles shyly
at the new delivery boy

spring sunshine
the strangeness of his perfectly
normal thumbnail

brief moments affection
spanning the years

waterfall
delicate forms
for a spirit

celebrating another
death day anniversary

kids laughing
in the neighbor’s house
the childless couple

smiling at lilting breeze
rocking and holding hands

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Winter Chrysanthemum

Ten Renga – Winter Chrysanthemum

Winter chrysanthemum,
Wearing nothing
but its own light

© Mizuhara Shūōshi (1892-1981)

garden shadows stretch slowly
waltzing across sleeping blooms

Family Tombstone

Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Wednesday #11 family tombstone

 

adding father’s name
to the family tombstone
with room for my own                    © Nicholas Virgilio

the song of the nightingale
lifts my sorrow to heaven

Morning Tea

Carpe Diem #1597 Tan Renga Challenge Month February 2019 (1) morning tea 

for his morning tea
a monk sits down in utter silence-
confronted by chrysanthemums                         © Matsuo Basho (Tr. unknown)

buzzing bees and warm sun
lull him in peaceful slumber

Cliffs

Carpe Diem #1594 Cliffs … Renga With Jane Reichhold

Credit – National Park Service

giant waves
sea cliff rocks
summer sea secure

beach scattered with shells
painted by the sunrise

high tide
brings storm waves
to cliff dwellers

hunkering under the overhang
eating roasted pine nuts

after the storm
sandstone cliffs relax pebbles
into the beach

gathering adobe
repairing  structural damage

sea spray
the cliff laced
by crystal

gleaming in first light
shadows dance with glee

frozen cliffs
swept by lighthouse beams
soft in the dark

wind echoing sound of past
in long abandoned  dwellings

high tossed mists
warmed in morning sun
above winter cliffs

beauty not lost
with the passage of time      

 

© Jane Reichhold

Lend Me Your Arms

Carpe Diem Extra September 28th 2018, pre-announcement October 2018

inazuma no kaina wo karan kusamakura 

lend me your arms,
fast as thunderbolts,
for a pillow on my journey.                 © Hendrik Doeff

lay your head upon my breast
under stars we’ll plan our lives

Withered Pampas Leaves

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (13) Withered Pampas Leaves 

 

A hat to cover
The body of our master,
Withered pampas leaves.

                                             © Shinshi (haigo of Takarai Kikaku)

cold winds no longer to blow
poems left to comfort mourners

Dim Glow of a Campfire

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (11) the dim glow of a campfire

cry of a circling hawk
fades with the sunset
night speeds its cloak

Haunted valley deep in the mountains
The dim glow of a campfire

© Chèvrefeuille

A Soothing Breeze

Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (3) a soothing breeze

a soothing breeze
cicadas sing their song
sound of water                  © Chèvrefeuille (2015)

a dragonfly visits my garden
wing shadows encomasing

Winds Howl in Rage

Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (2) winds howl in rage

over the wintry forest
winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow           ©️ Natsume Soseki

vulture perches
on a ancient oak

 

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over the wintry forest
winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow           ©️ Natsume Soseki

a pinecone plumets
squirrel chatters overhead

over the wintry forest
winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow           ©️ Natsume Soseki

one over the wintry forest
snowdrops dare to bloom