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Renga With Richard Wright - 'THE UPTURNED BROOM'
All right, You Sparrows;
The sun has set and you can now
Stop your chattering!

to standing ovation
the curtain reopens

You moths must leave now;
I am turning out the light
And going to sleep.

upturned broom in a corner
knowing glances slyly passed

Make up you mind, Snail!
You are half inside your house,
And halfway out!

a vanishing overcast
with chicken hawks circling

One magnolia
Landed upon another
In the dew-wet grass.

skipping to morning light
Tropical Mocking birds

Keep straight down this block,
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming

walking amids honking horns
the morning rush of traffic
[3-liners © Richard Wright; 2-liners © gillena cox]


NOTE: According to a trini superstition ... if you have a visitor who is reluctant to leave when it's time for him to leave, then you turn a broom upide down and place it in a corner of the house. In that way the visitor will take his immediate exit.




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Carpe Diem #1532 Richard Wright's "A Red Sinking Autumn Sun"
The prompt from Chèvrefeuille
For this episode I love to challenge you to create a Renga With Richard Wright. That means: I will give you six haiku. You may choose your own line-up and add your two-lined stanzas. Here are the six haiku to work with:

I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.

Keep straight down this block,
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming.

Make up you mind, Snail!
You are half inside your house,
And halfway out!

You moths must leave now;
I am turning out the light
And going to sleep.

All right, You Sparrows;
The sun has set and you can now
Stop your chattering!

One magnolia
Landed upon another
In the dew-wet grass.

© Richard Wright




THE RENGA
I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away /rw

this day melts in golden sky
its colour fed to the moon /gc

All right, You Sparrows;
The sun has set and you can now
Stop your chattering!

to standing ovation
the curtain reopens /gc

You moths must leave now;
I am turning out the light
And going to sleep. /rw

upturned broom in a corner
knowing glances slyly passed /gc

Make up you mind, Snail!
You are half inside your house,
And halfway out! /rw

a vanishing overcast
with chicken hawks circling /gc

One magnolia
Landed upon another
In the dew-wet grass. /rw

skipping to morning light
Tropical Mocking birds /gc

Keep straight down this block,
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming /rw

walking amids honking horns
the morning rush of traffic /gc


REVISIT
30 October 2016
30 October 2015
30 October 2014