Written for: Carpe Diem #1817 Renga With … Jane Reichhold … Moonlight Moving
“Today I love to challenge you to create a Renga With Jane Reichhold, our beloved and so missed co-host of CDHK may she rest in peace.
The goal of this feature, Renga With …, is to add your two-lined verses / stanza through association on the scenes in the given haiku … together with Jane Reichhold you are creating in that way a so called “Junicho” (a 12-stanza renga).”
Here are the six (6) haiku by Jane Reichhold, extracted from her online Saijiki “A Dictionary of Haiku”, section Spring, sub-section Moods:
As always you can choose your own “line-up”, but … your Renga With … has to start with the following haiku:
moonlight moving
with the gate as the servant girl
takes an evening © Jane Reichhold
to fulfill her desire
with the moon looking on (Sara)
morning fog
dreams not buried
deep enough © Jane Reichhold
temporary occlusion
clarity to follow (Sara)
spring sunshine
the strangeness of his perfectly
normal thumbnail © Jane Reichhold
as he delicately strokes
a blooming yellow rose (Sara)
kids laughing
in the neighbor’s house
the childless couple © Jane Reichhold
smiles at their energy
wistfully wondering (Sara)
Saturday rain
desire by a warm stove
for an affair © Jane Reichhold
running through the raindrops
under one umbrella (Sara)
waterfall
delicate forms
for a spirit © Jane Reichhold
sprinkling pinpoints of water
on the lovers, blessed by moon (Sara)
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