Harrogate Renga Party!

Each haiku or tanka which follows the first was written by a different member so that the resulting poem builds up rather loke a chain letter! It is intended to be fun. The results are occasionally profound. Why not try it and send us the results?


MIRRORS

Motel mirror
I too am
just passing through (Peter Yovu)

Reflections are cruel
but will pass too

Mirrors tell lies;
Right becomes left
rights become wrongs.

My eyes stare back
in contradiction

No sense at all in it
All meaning has gone
Reflections are void

Imperfections loom large
Denial all too evident

So I will take off
my spectacles put them down
and look

Sometimes I see more clearly
with my eyes shut





NIGHT THOUGHTS

A barking dog
little bits of night
breaking off (Jane Reichhold)

Moonlight spills
across wet cobbles

Sleeping I watch her
sliding through doors
that block my exit

The way is barred
Where has she gone?

She beckons in the winter wind
calling soundlessly
into my soporific senses

And I twist away
into vacuity

Only the barking remains
filling night air and dreams
with menace

Ghosts of the past
haunt the remaining night.