October Rain, the first English-language Rokku Renku
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October rain –
sheltered by an oak
we swap stories
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a chatter
of magpies
puffed against the cold
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nimble fingers
delve in pockets
not strictly their own
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under the table
the dog eats dry roast
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a sickle moon
the breaking summer waves
soft in my ear
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a light comes on
the clown alarm clock smiles
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cherry blossoms fractal
upon the mirror pond
beloved frog
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so green the garden fence
begins to sprout
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awkwardly
he wrestles with her garter
in the grass
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her long tangled hair
a new mother rests
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the feeling
on a childhood swing
snow flurries and sky
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in a halo of Nag Champa
Buddha's laugh
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teasing out
where stone gives way to space
an oboe sings
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we part the reeds,
a dream I know by heart
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grinding sumi
a fragrance so acute
the fall-chill enters
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porcelain and shadow
this autumn moon
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layers of smog
colour the mountain's
beauty and sadness
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you have yet to touch this flesh,
this throbbing blood
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almost midnight the red of a burgundy close to your lips
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my mouth with yours our eyes filled with frozen stars
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the Verrazano bridge, elegant with enormous lengths of wire
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a different tack on a slow boat to china
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how cooling the spray as we stroll through the sprinkler's rainbow
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theater restoration did I hear applause
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unsettled crow
the tractor starts up
the wind-rows1
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startled
doe
the spotted fawn runs
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...two, one, zero
launch! a space shuttle
and the Hope
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the old headstone cracked
through a whaler's name
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veined tissue
pink peonies bloom
origami of themselves
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warmth of the sun
a ventriloquist yawns
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1Wind-row: a row of hay, or sheaves
of grain, raked together to dry in the wind |
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Composed 11 November 2007 to 23 March 2008
Participants:
rm : Ron Moss (Australia)
sw : Sheila Windsor (UK)
jec : John Carley (UK)
ha : Hortensia Anderson (USA)
ey : Eiko Yachimoto (Japan)
with a guest verse from Akiko Yosano
(1878 - 1942)
The first two folios were led by John Carley and the last two
by Eiko Yachimoto. The leadership was switched between the two
in the third folio.
Related articles
in this issue of Simply Haiku:
October Rain, the first English-language Rokku Renku :
Tomegaki, by Eiko Yachimoto
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