A submissions call for hokku for a triparshava renku of 22 verses beginning with Winter. Members, please submit up to three verses. Discussion will follow.
Reader's comments are encouraged and welcome!
Side 1 - jo - preface
hokku -wi
wakiku -wi
daisan -ns
4 short -ns
5 long -sp/su/mn
6 short -sp/ns
Side 2 - ha - development and intensification
7 long -ns
8 short -ns
9 long -ns/sp
10 short -su/sp/lv
11 long -ns/lv
12 short -ns/lv
13 long -ns/lv
14 short -au
15 long -au mn
16 short -au
Side 3 - kyu - finale
17 long -ns
18 short -su
19 long -ns
20 short -sp
21 long -sp/bl
ageku -sp
(from John Carley's Renku Reckoner)
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deep river's ice
the catfish dream
of soaring flight / b
myriad ripples
on the frozen stream
a sudden thaw / b
perched upon
the oyster midden-
two hungry seagulls / ec
picking the sinew
from our teeth-
late winter stew/ ec
northern wind-
a fallen bird's nest
upsets/ unsettles the soul/ ec
charcoal rendering
of the world today
haiti slave ship / gj
hawk on a post
last night's
gargoyle dream / gj
center of the tempest
cold sparrows
in song / gj
whale watching
once again, only the sky
and the sea / rb
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