I hope the New Year has started out well for everybody. How's the writing going? I haven't missed a day yet, although, some days are... well... you'll see. I also see that after
AND NOW FOR OUR FIRST GROUP GLORY BE! PROJECT! January Renga Tree, which I hope will be added onto throughout the end of the month. I know renga trees have gone around dA before, but they're likely new to many of you. For the sake of not potentially spamming dA like crazy - as I hope you will all join in and go bananas - I'm going to set it up here. Of course, if you end up with a little something you want to submit to the group at large, go ahead - but this way, you can feel free to do as many as you want or can
What is a Renga Tree? A renga is a collaborative poem effort (to read more, click the link below) and a Renga Tree is a branching form of renga. You start with an initial "seed" to which anyone can post a response, to which in turn anyone can respond. The result gives you your "tree" which will look something like:
Initial Seed
- Branch 1
- subbranch
- subbranch
- subbranch
- subbranch
- subbranch
- Branch 2
- subbranch
- subbranch
- subbranch
- subbranch
- Branch 3
OUR FIRST RENGA WILL BE WITH HAIKU whether you want to go with 5-7-5 Haiku or something less traditional is up to you. To start us off,
Lightning fizzles,
heartache splitting the clouds
in angry divorce.
I shall post the first "branch" response in a comment below. Anyone else who wants to respond directly to
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haikai no rengaHaikai no renga originated as a poetry game among courtiers of the Imperial court of ancient Japan. The game began with a hokko, a poem of 17 on or onji written in three line (it was from hokko that Matsuo Bashō developed haiku), which would be answered by a 14 on, 2-line response, followed another linked 17 on, 3-line poem, and so on. As far as I can discern, the game was by played by a limited, though non-specific of number of poets. Given how the game operates, 4 to 8 poets seems optimum, though I have yet to track down anything specific.<-- additional information on rengas
One method of running the game would look something like this: The senior poet (this was a Confucian-guided society and such distinctions mattered) would provide the hokko, while the other poets would all suggest responses, from which one would be chosen. This poem would be the next link, and the process would continue until it was mutually decided that the poem was finished.
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