Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge 103 Basho’s “a flash of lightning.”

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Here is my contribution to the lovely “hokko” chosen by our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai host, written by the master Basho.  (A Tan Renga consists of a three-line Haiku by one poet, and completed with two additional lines written by another poet.)

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2016/06/carpe-diem-tan-renga-challenge-103.

inazuma ya yami no kata yuku goi no koe

a flash of lightning—
passing through the darkness
a night heron’s scream

©Basho (1644-1694)

—give a tantalizing glimpse
of imagined things unseen

©Sometimes, 2016

 

6 thoughts on “Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge 103 Basho’s “a flash of lightning.””

  2. I’ve never heard of that – now that’s what I call fun! Have you ever read ‘Gaudy Night’ by Dorothy L Sayers, in which Peter Wimsey completes Harriet Vane’s sonnet? It makes her very cross because he does it so well!

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