Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #91 Renga With …. (hineri) Sonora Desert
I will give you six haiku, but from those six I have chosen two which are already in place. I will try to explain the goal this time, in this Hineri Renga, two of the given haiku have a place in the renga you just have to add your two lined stanza of approx. 7-7 syllables. This time those haiku are the first and the third haiku of the six. Those two haiku cannot appear on an other place in your renga.
Here are the haiku to work with and create your Renga with … Jane Reichhold:
Teddy Bear Cholla (Sonora Desert)
1. among dune grass
silver bleached logs
and a perfect day
2. overcoming rocks
a stream of cacti
slowly spreading
3. desert ways
branching all over
cholla cactus
4. alone and asking
to be touched
teddy bear cholla
5. writing
desert poems
pencil cholla
6. desert sunset
cholla cactus sticks
to the light
© Jane Reichhold (Extracted from “A Dictionary Of Haiku”)
“So the task is to create a Renga With Jane Reichhold, but the 1st and 3rd haiku have to stay on their place. Add your two lined stanza and take the opportunity to creat a renga with one of the greatest and renown modern haiku poets … Jane Reichhold.”
Here is my attempt:
among dune grass
silver bleached log
and a perfect day
to paint beauty of desert
all the layers of color
writing
desert poems
pencil cholla
how much growth will cholla see
a brand new shape will emerge
dessert ways
branching all over
cholla cactus
becomes new figure and hue
light heads on dark bodies
overcoming rocks
a stream of cacti
slowly spreading
base is thick and stronger now
able to hold additions
alone and asking
to be touched
teddy bear cholla
watch out for hidden spikes
this teddy bear can’t be hugged
a desert sunset
cholla cactus sticks
to the light
dune grasses start to darken
a perfect day is ending
