This is a place for posting renku.
Renku is a Japanese poetic form with five lines with syllables 5-7-5-7-7. You will note that the first three constitute a haiku, so you can say a renku is a haiku with two extra lines.
Here is an example that I wrote this morning
In the unknown night
my soul is busy weaving
a new day’s garment
to protect me from the gale
that ever seeks to enter
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The cat is lounging
in a pool of bright sunshine
spread out on my bed
dreaming of hunting last night
in the half light of the moon
I prefer to sleep
in the blackness of the night
where nothing is seen
and dream of the moon rising
in the half light of my mind.
When I become cat
and the cat turns into me
I’ll doze all day long
in my furry dressing gown
and the poet shall be she.
Shelter of the mind
your heart gives compassion
that friends should return.
Let me carry the burden,
a friend of heart-mind does so.
Coming and going,
the mirror is unconcerned
who lives in its depths.
I, however, have a heart
- such a heavy handicap.
is it Narcissus?
the mirror is not water
maybe a hermit?
of brass it is at the wall
his image is for us all
Mirror on the wall,
who is most fool of them all?
Receding image…
is it me? Yes, I see now!
We go on together, then.
I am you are me
It's Indra's net she wove
threads of shining light
finely intertwined
mirror of infinity
Forever unknown
she goes on with her weaving;
the lace-making soul
has a thread that’s eternal
whose ends are heaven and hell.
The garment was lace
the storm entered
my Soul is unknown