WHCrenku Follow This Games 5 & 6 New

WHCrenku - Follow This! Games 5 & 6

FOLLOW THIS ! NEW Games 5 & 6
Reader Participation With Renku Verses

by Paul MacNeil, Renku Editor

GAME 5

Excerpted from a renku played via Internet in 1999 by Paul MacNeil, Ferris Gilli, and A.C. Missias: Tin Dippers

with a magnifier
watching ants emerge

18) fg

first warm spell
attracts sun bathers
to the college quad

19) pwm

The 20th stanza, written by Ferris Gilli, shall be revealed in the next Issue.

ASSIGNMENT:

Submit a two-line verse having no season -- no kigo connoting any season:

It is preferred that the verse would not be an outdoor setting. Humans may or may not be mentioned but, if so, let it not be plural because the last mention of people (in #18) was in third person plural. Variety in all things. This assignment is a chance to think freely and associate as wildly as you wish. Do link, of course, to #19. Both #'s 18 and 19 were spring topics, as was #17 (not shown) in the traditional "blossom" slot.

Send your entry to me, Paul MacNeil, at:

pwm.shippond@worldnet.att.net

Deadline: December 30, 2001
titled WHReview, renku game #5

GAME #6

Here is another challenge to follow a classic Japanese Master.

In 1780, three years before his death, Yosa Buson joined with a disciple of his, Takai Kito, to write several haika-no-renga. From a translation by Earl Miner, here are two verses from the summer kasen of that grouping: Peony Petals Fell:

the palanquin bearer
needs someone to bear the other end
as autumn rain comes down

Kito (#31, an autumn verse)

a kite and a crow face off
disputing space over there

Buson (#32, no season)

*NOTE: this kite is a bird, a raptor, a kind of hawk ... crows will often chase hawks, even if not nesting season when this mismatch is attempted by many other birds)

I will reveal Kito's replying stanza in the next Issue of WHReview. For those who might find this Renku elsewhere... no peeking, please!

ASSIGNMENT:

Please write a linking stanza of three lines. There is no season, traditionally, in the 33rd verse. If you choose a human reference, not required, it should be unlike the third person singular of verse #31.

And as always the only renku verse that is a haiku is the first -- the hokku. You should not have a cut or break (caesura) punctuated or otherwise; the verse should flow smoothly, leading the reader from one to another. This is especially true in this 4th and last page: stanzas 31 through 36. This closing group is normally characterized by directness.

Send to me, Paul MacNeil, at:

pwm.shippond@worldnet.att.net

Deadline: December 30, 2001
titled WHReview, renku game #5.

pwm.shippond@worldnet.att.net

Deadline: December 30, 2001
titled WHReview, renku game #5.

Thank you for playing! On the next three pages are complete renku for you to enjoy. Please feel free to submit your own group’s renku to me as Editor. I may ask for changes and not all will necessarily be accepted. This part of the renku section of WHReview functions just as any edited journal. Please do not send any material that is currently pending before any other editor or contest. I do accept previously published work, but it should have completed its “ordinary run” with that other publication.

NOTICE for Submissions

All of the renku and renku selections shown here are by permission of the authors who retain full copyright. Your submission of original verses to FOLLOW THIS! and/or submission of your complete renku to the Renku Editor expresses your permission for the World Haiku Review to publish your verses if accepted. Not all submissions will be published. One does not need to be a member of WHC to submit to the reader participation renku games, but you are invited to join us by submitting your application through WHC's website pages: Mailing Lists: WHChaikuforum:

http://www.worldhaikuclub.org

or directly at our YahooGroups WHCschools homepage:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHChaikuforum

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