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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.
Blog hopping today with
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
