Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (20) in an empty shoe
rest on the field –
a lonely cricket chirping
in an empty shoe © Virginia Popescu
workers long since
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (19) broken sunflower
broken sunflower
torn apart by a rainstorm —
puddles on the path © Chèvrefeuille, your host
relationship ending
mud splatters everywhere
Carpe Diem’s Weekend Meditation #51 Tagore’s “Endless Time”
Endless Time
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.
Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.
We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for a chance.
We are too poor to be late.
And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut;
but I find that yet there is time.
© Rabindranath Tagore
we hurl through space
at breakneck speeds lost
forgetting how to breath
through the eons you wait for
your stiff-necked people to change
Renga With Basho #9 A Mark On The Wall
path of the sun
the hollyhock leans into
early summer rain
shallow roots struggling
for a deeper ballast
don’t be like me
even though we’re like the melon
split in two
neglected and forgotten
our relationship decays
wait awhile
cut the soy beans to the sound
of monks beating bowls
sync the rhythm of our lives
press my heart to yours
summer rain
where the poem card peeled off
a mark on the wall
your words scaring my heart
crumbling tear stained paper
building a bridge
between snow-covered mountains
white egrets
flimsy patch bares its limit
broken threads dangle loosely
plovers fly away
the evening grows later with
cold mountain winds
our hands linger momentarily
last touch as we separate
© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold, taken from: Basho, the complete haiku)
grass on river bank
bending over in warm breeze
pale moon looking down © Ken Gierke (RivrVlogr)
floats tree silhouettes
stirred by the stars
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (15) broken by the storm
broken by the storm
the asters’ fragrance rises
out of damp earth © Jane Reichhold
gathering debris
I find a robin egg intact
broken by the storm
the asters’ fragrance rises
out of damp earth © Jane Reichhold
my heart drawing strength
to weather its own onslaught
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (14) sparkling wine
Sparkling wine
Flames dance in her hand
He is granted a smile © Yozakura
lingering a moment
then whisked away by another
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (12) clouds and waves
clouds and waves
carry my dreams away
tugging my anchor
I stand in the shallows searching
longing for your return
(No hokko attribution for this poem, as it is one of mine. This would be a solo renga, not a tan renga. The haiku was inspired by a poem of Rabindranath Tagore.)
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #50 Rabindranath Tagore’s “where shadow chases light”
Adas Poetry Alcove 