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Autumn 2006, vol 4 no 3

RENKU

Twenty Verses : Withered Crow

       

miles from home
withered crow
under basho leaves

Raffael de Gruttola    

swishing a paint brush
to the day moon

Kengo Hotokebuchi    

cold autumn stream
meanders down the mountain side
thousands of rounded pebbles

Allen LeVines    

mounted crab specimen
in the school bag

 Fumiko Kimura    

in Iga country
they say skills of ninja
certainly inherited

Yoshiko Matsushima
   

dance away!
light shimmering in the trees

Yumiko Matsuoka    

rushing on to the train
I cannot wait
for my weekend date

Toyoe Okabe    

wearing his sweater
even though it's too big

 Raffael de Gruttola    

a shot of whisky
in the bar
named "Winter"

Fumiko Kimura    

"No more war,"
the sea cries

Yoshiko Matsushima    

on the frosted glass
I remember
my father's back

Toyoe Okabe    

it's raining now
on the slag heap

 Kengo Hotokebuchi    

azure of hydrangea
dissolving
into pale pink

Yoshiko Matsushima
   

a gold bug is coming
in the needle woman's dream

Kengo Hotokebuchi    

under the moon
a visitor's shadow
and his phlegm

Toyoe Okabe    

ruthlessly the tax collector
demands payment

Kengo Hotokebuchi
   

at sixty
with obedient ears
I hear two languages

Fumiko Kimura    

look at his pilgrimage hat
an icon memory of Buddha on it

Yoshiko Matsushima    

downloading
a cherry blossom photo
on my laptop computer

Raffael de Gruttola    

a cat's salute
in the spring wind

Toyoe Okabe    
 
     

Composed to commemorate the 360th anniversary of the birth of Master Basho. Iga-Ueno, October 2004.

 

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