broken sunflower
torn apart by a rainstorm —
puddles on the path
blazing summer has collapsed
lightning heralds autumn’s road
(by — please read the following as Renga is a collaborative poem so each stanza is by different people)
Renga is a Japanese form of collaborative poetry. In the Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (19) broken sunflower, Chèvrefeuille challenges us to create a renga.
The first stanza is the hokku which later evolved into what we now know as haiku. That stanza is 5-7-5 syllable count. Chèvrefeuille begins the challenge with this hokku:
broken sunflower
torn apart by a rainstorm —
puddles on the path
So the first hokku stanza is by Chèvrefeuille.
Now I’m not familiar with the renga. Each stanza has a different count! So I ran to wiki to look up Renga. Wiki did not let me down. Down in the terminology section, Wiki explained the name of each stanza and the counts. So the next stanza is the waki. It is two lines with 7 syllables each.
So this is my waki
blazing summer has collapsed
lightning heralds autumn’s road
If you would like to add the next stanza, the daisan is back to the familiar 3-lines and the 5-7-5 count.
There is also the hiraku and the ageku. The hiraku is any stanza that is not the waki, daisan or ageku. I have no clue the line or syllable count for the hiraku as wiki did not say. The ageku is the final paragraph and since rengu’s have been known to have 1,000 stanzas, the ageku will have to wait.
join the fun, add your waki, daisan, hiraku, but not the ageku to linkup at
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (19) broken sunflower
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai