In Port Townsend: Up-date on Renku Poem’s Progress…. : )
Port Townsend October Moon ............................by Leticia Huber
It’s never too late…In case you want to join the Renku poem, let us up-date you! : )
Please share Christopher Herold’s Renku e-mail for this month:
Dear Poet Friends,
We had a wonderful renku session on Thursday at Doris’s house. The discussions about candidate stanzas was outstanding. I feel that our understanding has increased dramatically of late. We’ve come a long way since the early days of our meetings, just over a year and a half ago. A big thank you to you, Doris, for being our hostess yet again. You’re so good at it!
I’d like to suggest that we meet again on Thursday, March 25. I’m not sure where yet, although here at my house is always an option. If any of you would like to host, please let me know. It’s nice to pass around the pleasure. We may even finish our renku at the next meeting. Exciting!
And now, here is the newly updated work. As always, I’ll paste a word copy here with some guidelines for the next stanza (#32). After that, I’ll attach the three template files (master, mandalic universe, and links). Remember, you can compose one or two candidates for #32 and bring them with you to the March party.
Enjoy!
Christopher
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A SKEIN OF OLD YARN
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(an autumn kasen renku)
begun on August 20 at the Huber Inn
Sabaki: Christopher Herold
Jay Haskins, Leticia Huber, Karma Tenzing Wangchuk, Carmi Soifer, Bethel, Jackie Barr, Alison Hedlund, Carol O’Dell, Doris Thurston, Tanya McDonald
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1 autumn (Jay)
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morning light
dragonflies barely ripple
the lagoon
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2 autumn moon (Leticia)
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does this warmth
come from you, O moon?
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3 autumn (Tenzing)
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the scarecrow’s
lost a button or two
off his coat
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4 No Season (Carmi)
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my neighbor weaves
a skein of old yarn
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5 winter (Bethel)
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in his cold hut
the hermit prepares
rosehip tea (Bethel)
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6 winter (Jackie)
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a rare visitor leaves
footprints in the snow
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7 No Season (Alison)
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just inside the door
lies an envelope
with a foreign stamp
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8 No Season (Jay)
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bits of paper protrude
from the eagle’s nest
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9 Love (Jackie)
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her new bikini
causes his eyes to bug out
and his heart to flutter
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10 love (Jackie)
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the scent of perfume
wafts from the dryer
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11 love (Carol)
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as I read my book
I hear her sing a lullaby
to our daughter
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12 No Season (Jay)
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if clouds could speak
these would whisper
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13 summer moon (Doris)
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summer moon
swallowed
by the mountain
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14 summer (Tanya)
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bats begin to swoop
all around the camp
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15 No Season (Carol)
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three girls
race for the white horse
on the carousel
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16 No Season (Tenzing)
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somebody’s gone and left
the damn milk out to spoil
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17 Spring Blossom (Doris)
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cherry blossoms
tease my hand
into the branches
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18 spring (Jay)
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the monthly poker game
still active during lent
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19 spring (Carmi)
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thistledown
has settled to the bottom
of the beer mug
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20 No Season (Christopher)
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powerful gusts of wind
from the Columbia Gorge
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21 love (Tenzing)
.
a paper airplane
with a love note on it
hits the teacher
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22 love (Carol)
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traveling to the reunion
he hopes to see her
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23 love (Jay)
.
after fifty years
she still tries to change
his posture
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24 winter (Jackie)
.
a snowman tilts
under the pale sun
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25 winter (Doris)
.
there’s a blue bottle
inside my medicine cabinet
labeled “Winter Dreams”
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26 No Season (Jay)
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the new kid is Aladdin
in the school play
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27 No Season (Christopher)
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suicide bomber
apprehended just in time
at the ticket booth
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28 No Season (Doris)
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from beyond the garden wall
a raven calls out it’s warning
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29 autumn moon (Carmi)
.
steam from our cider
blurs the gibbous moon
in the window
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30 autumn (Tenzing)
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she comes out of the fog
with a train of seaweed
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31 autumn (Jackie)
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dried fish
paid for with Chinese coins
found on the beach
32 No Season
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This stanza is to be a two-liner with no reference to a season. It must not contain any negative or charged subject matter (sickness, death, money, politics, religious motifs, danger, depression . . .). Also, remember that no subject matter in the hokku can be present in any other verse.
So, the first things to do are to check the mandalic universe for topics we haven’t used as yet and could work into the tapestry in an upbeat way. Then decide upon the way you’d like to link to stanza #31. Plenty of possibilities for linking there. #32 could take place either inside or outside. This verse could be peopled if you wish. The linking can be rather close as compared to the middle of the renku where shifting is emphasized and the linkage is more tenuous. From this point on we want readers to have little difficulty recognizing the connections between stanzas.
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