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Kim Russell over at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads has prompted us to Condense a Poem, the poem she has chosen is Pablo Neruda's 'Sweetness, always'
When i read the poem, i took from it the motifs of: writing, distance, places and appeal to the sense of taste and used them to go back in time and then come forward with today's haibun 'RENHAI RENDEZVOUS'
Process Note: Adhering to Classical Haibun which is always written in the present tense.


[that's us at the mall - a 2015 photo]

RENHAI RENDEZVOUS
My poet friend from Canada, the one who has created the form rehnai, comes to Trinidad, its year 2015. He is here to attend the wedding of a relative. We agree to meet at West Mall to sit and write a renhai together, What fun! my first time meeting him in person. A little more of this rendezvous here

sweet vanilla chai -
feed me your renhai verses
spoken in low tones
RENHAI RENDEZVOUS © gillena cox 2017

Its hot and bright today perfect carnival time sunshine
Sunday Smiles



Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #21 in the series, The Sunday Standard, when a 5-7-5 haiku is featured. How is your Sunday going email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



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Recuerda Mi Corazon
haiku my heart ~ rendezvous

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#1139 listening

Revisit
29th Jan 2016
Sunday Lime 21
Sunday Savvy 21



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I snap a photo, [Its Tuesday August 11, 2015] and post it to Facebook saying: I'm at the mall to meet my haiku pal Vaughn Seward from Canada, who came to Trinidad for the wedding of a relative, and, we would be meeting in person for the very first time.
So, i step on, and the escalator ascends, and, there he is.
We greet each other with a hug, then we go to the coffee shop where I meet his wife and cousin.



He buys me a vanilla chai, and we four, sit and chat awhile. Then, we split up. Janice and Heather decides to browse the mall, while Vaughn and myself move to a more comfortable sitting area to write our first ever 'face-to-face' Renhai

Chai Bar
on the coffee shop board -
list of tea flavors
© gillena cox



I ask Vaughn to start, so he gives me two options for the second Verse [thats where a Renhai starts, radiating outward, to verses 1 and 3]; I choose a phrase about ants... and the Rehnai has started


We sit, for about two to two and a half hours, we chat as we write, catching up, reminiscing on haiku-related online connections. We linger through our present Renhai. I give to Vaughn, a signed copy of my first haiku book 'Moments'



When Janice and Heather returns, we are just wrapping up. We decide to leave the Renhai untitled, and continue that part of it by e-mail some other time. But, we read the Renhai, and Heather does a phone video of our reading.
Bravo to 'Renhai team Vaughn and Gillena' We did it .

[FIRST DRAFT OF OUR MALL RENHAI]
cars on the freeway
begin to clump together -
speeding ambulance.../vs

ants on the coconut trunk.../vs
queues to bake and shark vendors.../gc

sandcastle builders -
laughter bursting forth covers
the sound of the waves.../gc


Revisit
meeting Tye 2012
Returning - A 2011 Renhai
Sunday Lime 1



Welcome to Sunday Lime #46 Hope you liked my Renhai-meet sharing today; Sunday Smiles



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Defining Haiku here at Lunch Break that's 30 days, November 1st - 30th of haiku features

Yesterday evening, i meet in person, for the first time, a haiku friend from the USA. Tye is a member of my Patch Work haiku group and participates in several collaborations, here at Lunch Break. Though Tye is absolutely not a cheese eater, we agree to meet and lime at Roxy Pizza Hut, after negotiating a cheese free serving of meatballs and spaghetti for him, and personal pineapple and ham pizza and a glass of white wine for me, we slip into a lovely meal, and talk about haiku and haiku friends we have in common, oh and at some point the music of Trinidad and Tobago. I gift Tye with a copy of my first haiku publication 'Moments'. We eat and talk and talk and talk until near time for his folks to come pick him up. Tye is so gracious, he says he doesn't mind at all having to carry the book wrapped in a plastic bag; he being a haijin is rarely empty handed, he always has a notebook or pencil in hand. Tye is flying back home to the USA today. Wishing Tye a safe and comfortable flight. Hope your visit to Trinidad enriches you in a marvelous haiku way

gibbous moon -
the smiles of two haijin
who finally meet
--gillena cox


Today's note - haibun


Sometimes haiku is teamed with prose in telling a story; when this occurs, the haijin has extended into the realm of haibun. And here the haiku should complement, and add dimension to the prose which is written in present tense even if retelling a past happening


I invite you to share some of your expertise on haibun with me

Thank you Adelaide for
ALONE
-- by Adelaide B. Shaw

Coffee in the café, her daily routine. Many of the same faces. Busy people. Lonely people. Happy. Sad. She was one of many. Who cared? Did she? Not enough. Would she die like this, uncaring and uncared for?

full winter moon
in the wind
shadows touch

Contemporary Haibun On-line Sept 2010



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