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Haikai // Haiku 川 Hokku \\ Hiraku
|| Translations by Dick Whyte ||

俳諧 = haikai = "playful harmony"
俳句 = haiku = "playful verse"

Please play! Cap the hokku to make a tan'renga! Riff on the kigo! Reply in haiku, hiraku, tsukeku, wakiku, hanka, et al.
Ohhh lovely - and really resonates with me!
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A butterfly #haiku from my latest book, 'Same Old Moon':

without thought
crossing the border . . .
a butterfly

🦋
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November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
(tan'renga)

summer forest symphony
drink tea at intermission

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
#俳句 #haiku #poet:Daimu #era:1700s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku form, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Dick White of @dailyhaikai.bsky.social and @forgottenpoets.bsky.social inspired and co-wrote a little renga with me me over the weekend.

I learned from him, and had so much fun!
The first haikai is by Taimu (d. 1774?), tr. Dick Whyte himself.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Awww, yr welcome any time of course! Would love to see some tsukeku from you some time! 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Nice one Dave. Though I think perhaps you mean hototogisu (cuckoo), rather than hotogisu?
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Love the end of this being a new journey - seems fitting some how. No need for either/or, it's a both/and! 😌
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Love it Kris - a wonderful reply! 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ohh such a lovely image! Thanks Robin.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Lovely - enjoy the bait & switch here 😉
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Aw, a lovely image! Reminds me of one of my old #haiku:

reading Bashō
the scent of grass . . .
freshly cut

Which was partly inspired by one of Bonchō's:

morning cool—
freshly cut grass piled
by the gate

🖤
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Lovely link and shift Robin! I can really hear it 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Ohhhhh lovely! 🖤
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Bashō: “If there are 3 or 4 extra kana, or even 5 or 7, there's no need to worry, as long as it sounds right. But if even one kana is stale in your mouth, give it all of your attention.” 🖤
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Night! I'm about to go to bed here - will reply in the morning as well, if you want to keep it going. :-)
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Though 5-5 does seem to be working for you in this instance, if you wanna just stick with that!
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ok here's my reply:

noon smells of diesel
thunder far away

dead flowers
next to fake flowers:
spring night

Feel free to reply in any kind of couplet, up to 7-7, but long-long of any count works for me (you'll notice mine follow a short-long-short pattern but not a 5-7-5).

x
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I think here the images have enough distance between them to really start to suggest a mood between them - a third thing, that neither poem states, but both participate in. And there's no repetition of major images :-) Lovely work Kris! Love this one so much.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Personally, I use SLS + LL rather than 575+77, as it can better approximate the fleetness of the images. A Japanese 77 is more like an English 55 anyhow, length-wise, and I love your first reply;

wrapped
around the blackbird,
old sky

noon smells of diesel
thunder far away

This to me is perfect!
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Aw thanks so much Kris - happy to play around any time! Really appreciate the kind words too. Made my day!
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A lovely reply ku Dave! 🖤
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In mine, for instance, I imagined the poet sitting on the porch in yours, watching the pale moonset, something slow - and then seeing a blackbird flying by - so same vantage point, but entirely different scene and topic :-)
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM