In the Fields

ancient warriors ghosts
mists over the foreign highlands –
waiting for the full moon                         © Chèvrefeuille
graveyards become battlefields
watered by the tears of stars

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in the fields
with ripe rice plants for the Gods
the sickle is used . . .                                   © Takezaki Shisen
slowly waxing sickle moon
forecasts satisfied bellies

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white poppy
it must have bloomed
from a wintry shower                                © Basho
its seeds are icy snowflakes
silvered by the waning moon

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Kim M. Russell, 2017

My response to Carpe Diem #1337 Tan Renga Challenge “in the fields”

Today we have a Tan Renga Challenge, in which a short chained poem called a tan renga is written by two poets. The first poet provides the ‘hokku’ (starting verse), while the other poet adds a second stanza of two lines, making it look similar to a tanka.

Chèvrefeuille has chosen three haiku from which we can create our tan renga; we may use one, two or all three.

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