Colleen said : “If you want to be creative and feel up to an additional challenge, respond to my renga with your own two, seven-syllable lines. A renga is a cooperative poem, written by two or more poets.”
Colleen has written the hokku (haiku portion in 5/7/5). Our response to her hokku is the wakiku: two seven-syllable lines that connect with the interaction between the different links.
Remember,our renga stanza will link and shift. It will NOT tell a sequential story. Review the renga on the cheatsheet link on her page to refresh your memory.
Here is Colleen’s hokku: followed by my Waikiki.
hazy reflections— crows gather to remember the gifts of summer. Seasons whisper to the deer. Gently as they ride with crows
This is Part of Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Challenge.
