The Renku Sessions: Tan-Renga Week 2
What a lot of very good verses were offered this week. I am sorry that I will not be recognizing all of them. This will be a very busy and complex posting – in three parts.
PART 1
Here are just some of the most tempting offers of capping verses for:
a dark cloud
something
behind it
***
the promise of
affordable health care
Michael Henry Lee
the drone
they don’t see in time
Tracy Davidson
she stops
watering the garden
Belinda Behne
silhouette
on a broomstick
Roger Noons
another round
of cocktails
Victor Ortiz
in the hotel wall
an angry voice
Richard Straw
my father’s cough
through the bedroom wall
Orense Nicod
finding a packed suitcase
in the closet
Scott Anderson
My final selection:
a dark cloud
something
behind it John Stevenson
small town gossip
floods the grapevine Jennifer Sutherland
Tempting offers of capping verses for:
first snow
the warmth
inside
***
hot chocolate
burns my tongue
Sean Murphy
greenhouse crops
ready for harvest
John Daleiden
left on the porch
a spider plant
Richard Straw
the crackle of rosewood
and indie pop
tuka morris
an epiphany
of soul food
Orense Nicod
whiskey laced icing
on freshly baked scones
Scott Anderson
My final selection:
first snow
the warmth
inside John Stevenson
the snowman’s
tightly wound scarf Ceri Ma
Tempting offers of capping verses for:
multiple births
the creek ripples
with tadpoles
***
and turtles come to stay
under the dappled light
Lakshmi Iyer
legs and tails
what a good idea
Pete Weinstock
,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,
Ceri Ma
so many frogs
to kiss for one prince
Jennifer Sutherland
Herod orders killing
of the innocents
Pauline O’Carolan
My final selection:
multiple births
the creek ripples
with tadpoles John Stevenson
the sprig of a seedling
slips between leaves Laurie Greer
PART 2
There were also many good offers for new starting verses. I’m not going to list the tempting but ultimately not selected verses. Many of them will appear in other publications. Here are the three that are offered for another round of your capping verses:
no shoes
no shirt no service
a beggar’s cup
Anne Fox
bluejays
buzz
the cherry tree
Valerie Green
pine cones
the forest creeps
across a meadow
scott anderson
As it was last week, you are invited to offer up to three two-line capping verses. They can be three offers for a single starting verse, one for each of the three starters or any combination of three. Please include the starting verse with each of your capping verse offers.
PART 3
Next week will conclude our tan-renga practice with a selection of your capping verses. And we will begin a vert short renku. It will consist of six verses, as follows:
1 (hokku) three lines, summer
2 (wakiku) two lines, autumn moon
3 (daisan) three lines, autumn love
4 two lines, winter love
5 three lines, spring blossom
6 (ageku) spring
So, you are invited to offer up to three summer hokku.
The deadline for submitting your capping verses and hokku will be midnight (eastern US time zone) on Monday, June 1.
Looking forward to your offers!
John
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