family tombstone

Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Wednesday #11 family tombstone

check it out to join in

Here is the haiku to work with:

adding father’s name
to the family tombstone
with room for my own

And now it’s up to you to create a Tan Renga with this haiku by adding your two-lined stanza. Enjoy the challenge.

—
ancient secrets held in stone
silently wait to guard mine

©️Candace Kubinec

frosty rose

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 29th: “a single frosty rose” by Mizuhara Shuoshi (1892-1981)

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A new year begins
With the blooming
Of a single frosty rose (Mizuhara Shuoshi)

fragile petals opening
like the beauty of new love (Candy)

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge – May 8

carrying his mother
and leading his child by the hand …
cherry blossoms!

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge – May 7
a dragonfly pair
fastened to one another
went flickering by

~
holding hands beside the lake
young lovers sit on the grass

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge – 3
“in the moonlight”

in the moonlight
wisteria flowers look fragile –
a gust of wind
© Chevrefeuille

~
sweetest perfume is wafted
across the empty fields

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge – 2
“shadow of leaves”

shadows of leaves
cover the open holes
her flute forgotten
© Jane Reichhold

~
only the notes of birdsong
filling the evening air

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge 1
” old pond”

lily pads tremble
as ripples pass by

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out of the washbowl

I scoop up

my distorted face

——

splash in place a pleasant smile

ready to greet a new day

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