HAIKU TEA : Session III - Drifting Apart

FINAL LINKED VERSE - SESSION III

HaikuTea - April 2013 (15 Collaborators)

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WHAT ARE HAIKU TEA SESSIONS?

If you write, love collaborative writing, enthusiast of poetry and enjoy writing short verse like Haiku, Tanka, Renga, Renshi etc, then Haiku Tea sessions are for you... (Click here to join in for the Session III) Some weeks back I have had created a group on Google Plus for Haiku enthusiasts and through a suggestion of one of the friends, I started Linked Verse Sessions known as 'HaikuTea' on the lines of traditional Japanese style of public collaboration of writing poetry, where were quite popular in ancient Japan and China. These HaikuTea session at the group is getting to be quite popular in the group and the result - The Final Verse of 19 poets linked verse is for you to judge about the excellent quality of work these session produce... each one with their color and hue, paint the canvass of the emotions, feelings and thoughts in brilliant shades... Loved it.

The poets who are linked in these sessions are through invites only. If you are interested to be invited, please leave a comment on this link, (Click Here) with your concurrence AFTER READING THE RULES OF COLLABORATION.... 

The HaikuTea Session IV starts on 29th April.

The previous two session was wonderful and will be published in various blogs, forums by the members as well as will be printed as a collection by end of the year...

Now the final collection of verses by the 15 amazing poets is given below and their name's and links provided next to their lines...

DRIFTING TOGETHER

Drifting apart life, 

Memories float under bridge

Where riverbanks meet?                         +Shashi S 

Balanced reveries across 

Sunset Nirvāṇa.                                      +Berteena Gaines 

Are you awake or dreaming?

Only Buddha knows                                +Harley King 

Where the ashes of past lives

Drift, to their karma.                                +Gabri Rigotti  

they rise in treaty with gods

who never answered                               +Joe Nicholas  

Torn faith fleeting, feelings frayed.

Expectations spent.                                +jamer nicholls 

pockets empty, homeward trudge

red-sun silhouettes                                 +Carolyn St.Charles 

For love-dreaming lovers, dark!

Come to their dreaming                        +craig volney 

Promise of eternity

Wrapped in each other                          +John Belchamber 

Moments become memories

Frozen in the seconds                           +Tammy Wright

Sad smile, hiding a secret

Love lost in the flow                                +Francis JA 

Gone.  All Gone.  Supremely Gone

To the other side                                    +Jim Williams 

i follow hope, feet fearful -

the slack line trembles                           +Naomi Madelin 

Contemplation, Line pulls taut

Decision made...walk                            +A. M. Frasier 

Back to spiritual life,

Together again                                    +Steve Yagyagan 

To participate in this next collaborative poetry @ HaikuTea, please read the simple rules below… 

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1) This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2) You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3) Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4) At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5) The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6) You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7) If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8) Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9) The compilation of the individual verses will be done at the end by a person nominated by the moderator and/or the members.

10) Final decision on this collaboration is with the moderator.

PLEASE NOTE: You agree, by participating for this collaborative poetry HaikuTea Sessions, to be published in various blogs by the members (with due credit to each individual participating) as well as a final collection to be printed by end of the year. Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

To participate in the ongoing Session IV at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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HaikuTea Session II Final Verse

HAIKU TEA : Session II - Will Hope Succumb

FINAL LINKED VERSE - SESSION II

HaikuTea - April 2013 (19 Collaborators)

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WHAT ARE HAIKU TEA SESSIONS?

If you write, love collaborative writing, enthusiast of poetry and enjoy writing short verse like Haiku, Tanka, Renga, Renshi etc, then Haiku Tea sessions are for you... (Click here to join in for the Session III) Some weeks back I have had created a group on Google Plus for Haiku enthusiasts and through a suggestion of one of the friends, I started Linked Verse Sessions known as 'HaikuTea' on the lines of traditional Japanese style of public collaboration of writing poetry, where were quite popular in ancient Japan and China. These HaikuTea session at the group is getting to be quite popular in the group and the result - The Final Verse of 19 poets linked verse is for you to judge about the excellent quality of work these session produce... each one with their color and hue, paint the canvass of the emotions, feelings and thoughts in brilliant shades... Loved it.

The poets who are linked in these sessions are through invites only. If you are interested to be invited, please leave a comment on this link, (Click Here) with your concurrence AFTER READING THE RULES OF COLLABORATION.... 

The HaikuTea Session III starts on 15th April.

The previous two session was wonderful and will be published in various blogs, forums by the members as well as will be printed as a collection by end of the year...

Now the final collection of verses by the 19 amazing poets is given below and their name's and links provided next to their lines...

WILL HOPE SUCCUMB

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Life has scattered seeds

Waits for the memories to

Grow into longing                              -  

To relive past victories

To feel youth's passion                      -   

To Bring Back Things Lost, Many

Many Like Flowers                            -    

Many Like Flowers

tap muddy feet, delighting

one crimson petal                             -   

Open wide, drink up the sun

Now, tis time for fun                          -  

and profound reflections with

tender threnodies... (Funeral Song)    -   

life’s strewn seeds yielded thorns

will hope succumb?                          - 

Will hope succumb?

your freedom starts at dry grounds

take it, keep walking!                        - 
It is about the journey 

The road less traveled                       -   

To where It stands, Singular,

Calling the Walker …                        - 

Waiting for the memories

To help me forget.                            - 

To help me forget

greener grasses, purple haze

colour yesterday                              - 
thoughts so haunting

traveling through the air                    -  

My soul searches for love, peace,

Savoring the view                            - 
I pretend the clouds are hills

on the horizon.                               - 

On the horizon

dawn births the egg of fire

to sear the sky pink                        -  

With reflections of tall birds

Flaming with bright love                   - 
gazing at strangers

in this familiar photograph                - 

In this familiar photograph

memories lap at your feet

a forever flow of holy green               -   

To participate in this next collaborative poetry @ HaikuTea, please read the simple rules below… 

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1) This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2) You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3) Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4) At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5) The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6) You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7) If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8) Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9) The compilation of the individual verses will be done at the end by a person nominated by the moderator and/or the members.

10) Final decision on this collaboration is with the moderator.

PLEASE NOTE: You agree, by participating for this collaborative poetry HaikuTea Sessions, to be published in various blogs by the members (with due credit to each individual participating) as well as a final collection to be printed by end of the year. Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

To participate in the ongoing Session III at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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HaikuTea Session I Final Verse

HAIKU TEA: Session I - Walking By The Creek

SHARING HaikuTea - Linked Verse Inaugural Session March 2013

The inaugural session was wonderful and will be published in various blogs, forums by the members as well as will be printed as a collection by end of the year...

Here is the final compilation of HAIKU TEA collaborative poetry by the following poets, as named next to their verses....

To participate in the 'Ongoing Session II @ HaikuTea' please click here... 

WALKING BY THE CREEK

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Cut into pieces of

Being; Bridge across forever

Waits - for the Fall                              - (Shashi)

The end of time's illusion

Everything at once                                 - (BobHartwig)

Beautiful feelings, flowers

Touching twilight                                   - (CraigVolney)

in the Valley of the Moon

murmuring quail                                    - (JimmythePeach)

sings the tree over creek long flown

was it worth its life?                              - (AnnaLipniacka)

Yes, a moment in nature -

All is relative.                                        - (A. M.Frasier)

Fate contingent on free will -

Native impressions.                               - (BerteenaGaines)

Fleeting,ephemeral,like

Water reflections.                                 - (GabriRigotti)

Pebbles pelt disruptively.

Sky untouched -- intact!                      - (Carolyn St. Charles)

thunderbolts, lightening, rain

pound the earth like mad                    - (Gracy Dsouza)

with every trail of sparks

flowers in night sky                             - (Dicere Babe)

Twilight  came back to the man

walking by the creek                             - (Anna Lipniacka)

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Compiled by Anna Lipniacka

To participate in this next collaborative poetry @ HaikuTea, please read the simple rules below… 

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1) This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2) You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3) Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4) At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5) The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6) You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7) If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8) Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9) The compilation of the individual verses will be done at the end by a person nominated by the moderator and/or the members.

10) Final decision on this collaboration is with the moderator.

PLEASE NOTE: You agree, by participating for this collaborative poetry HaikuTea Sessions, to be published in various blogs by the members (with due credit to each individual participating) as well as a final collection to be printed by end of the year. Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

To participate in the ongoing Session II at Haiku Tea, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Understanding Haiku - A Beginner's Guide

Renga - A Verse Every Day; Collaborative Poetry HaikuTea

A Verse Every Day - Collaborative short verses of three lines to be called HaikuTea

Within a Google group, I am moderating a Haiku Group Some of the friends there, suggested a great idea to start collaborative short verses within the members of group, hence this post to give a little back ground on the ‘Collaborative poetry’.

If anyone would like to participate in this collaborative poetry at Haiku Group at Google Plus, please leave a comment below with your Google Plus ID, so that I can invite you to the “HaikuTea”. Please read the rules, given at the end of the post, carefully to participate.

RENGA

Renga (collaborative poetry) is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two ku or stanzas. The opening stanza of the renga, called the hokku, became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry.

Traditional renga was a group activity in which each participant displayed his wit by spontaneously composing a verse in response to the verse that came before; the more interesting the relationship between the two verses the more impressive the poet’s ability. The links between verses could range from vulgar to artistic, but as renga was taken up by skilled poets and developed into a set form, the vulgarity of its early days came to be ignored.

Renga was one of the most important literary arts in pre-modern Japan. The earliest surviving renga is in the Man'yōshū, where Ōtomo no Yakamochi and a Buddhist nun made and exchanged poems with sound unit counts of 5-7-5 and 7-7. This two-verse style is called tan-renga ("short renga"). Other styles are called chō-renga ("long renga").

Two of the most famous masters of renga were the Buddhist priest Sōgi (1421–1502) and Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694).

The first stanza of the renga chain, is called hokku.

Hokku (lit. "starting verse") is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collaborative linked poem, renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga). From the time of Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun (in combination with prose), and haiga (in combination with a painting). In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki(1867–1902), renamed the stand-alone hokku to haiku, and the latter term is now generally applied retrospectively to all hokku appearing independently of renku or renga, irrespective of when they were written. The term hokku continues to be used in its original sense, as the opening verse of a linked poem)

Hokku is the forebear of the modern haiku. The stand-alone hokku was renamed haiku in the Meiji period by the great Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki. Shiki proposed haiku as an abbreviation of the phrase "haikai no ku" meaning a verse of haikai.

RENKU

Renku ("linked verses") is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ushin renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae [(a mora is “something of which a long syllable consists of two and a short syllable consists of one.”-American linguist James D. McCawley in 1968) The term comes from the Latin word for “linger, delay”, which was also used to translate the Greek word chronos (time) in its metrical sense)]. Initially haikai no renga distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term renku gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it.

The oldest known collection of haikai linked verse appears in the first imperial anthology of renga, the Tsukubashū (1356-57).

During the last decades, the practice of renku has spread beyond Japan and established itself as a legitimate genre in English and in numerous languages around the world; the Global Renku Symposium, meeting in Tokyo in 2000, featured renku poets from USA, Romania, China, Russia, Australia, and Korea, as well as Japan. With the growth of the internet and of electronic communications, international renku collaborations have grown in popularity, including the previously mentioned countries as well as renku in French, Croatian, German, Italian, Afrikaans, and Esperanto. Sometimes, renku are composed simultaneously in two or more languages.

RENSHI

Renshi is a form of collaborative poetry pioneered by Makoto Ooka in the 1980s. It is a development of traditional Japanese renga and renku, but unlike these it does not adhere to traditional strictures on length, rhythm, and diction. Renshi are typically composed by a group of Japanese and foreign poets collaborating in the writing process in sessions lasting several days. In addition to Ooka, poets who have participated in renshi include James Lasdun, Charles Tomlinson, Hiromi Itō, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Jerome Rothenberg, Joseph Stanton, Wing Tek Lum, Karin Kiwus and Mikiro Sasaki.

Text Curtsy Wikipedia as linked on the topics
This is not an exhaustive report on the Collaborative Poetry, I have tried to give most of the links here to understand the form. Hope you have enjoyed this post.

To participate in this collaborative poetry at the Google Plus, please read the simple rules below…

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

1)    This is invite only effort, so you need to get invited. So leave a comment below to be invited.

2)    You will have to have a Google Plus account and have to be a member of the Group Haiku at Google Plus

3)    Once you are invited, you will be given a chronicle order, on the basis of your joining. You will have to write your linked verse, after a particular member which will be listed out on the HaikuTea page at the group.

4)    At your turn you will have to write within 24 hours your own linked verse.

5)    The linked verse have to have the first line as the last line of the previous linked verse and rest of the two lines you will have to create on your own.

6)    You will have to follow the short form of poetry, preferably in the 5-7-5 Syllable format.

7)    If, for any reason, you are not able to write your own verse within 24 hours, the next person in the order will be free to write his / her own verse, within 24 hours… and so on.

8)    Each HaikuTea linked verses will go on till every member of the group has finished writing one of his/her own or if the linked verse has gone beyond 100 linked verses or a particular time limit which will be decided by the moderator of the HaikuTea.

9)    …

10)  …

Look forward to your joining in the team…. Please click here to join HaikuTea....

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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