spring warbler spreads wings
leaves droppings while taking flight
spoiled rice cake remains
cat walks across veranda
hungry for departed bird
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #110 Carpe Diem Transformation …. Bush Warbler
offers a haiku by Bashō (below, in blue) to be transformed
into a tanka. In a process different from tan renga,
I have revised the original haiku before
adding two lines to create my tanka.
A spring warbler casts
A dropping on the rice cakes –
The veranda edge.
Image source: ukiyo-e.org – Warbler on Red Plum Branch
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I prefer your tanka to the original, Ken. I whole story in five lines.
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🙂 Thank you, Robbie.
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It is a story–it made me laugh imagining the scene–though I hope no one wanted to eat that rice cake!
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Ha!
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🙂
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The cat is a perfect addition. (K)
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Seconding cat as perfect catalyst!
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At the cost of two meals!
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Admissibly, my lazy-butt self just did a Tan Renga.
Your Tanka turned out wonderfully.
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🙂 Thank you!
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My original comment probably went to Spam. I’ve been having problems with WordPress eating my comments (again.)
Maybe the warbler ate my comment and then pooped on the rice cake. 😉
I enjoyed the humor in your Tanka.
~Cie~
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Found it, and yes, it did! And thank you. 🙂
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Beautiful poems Ken. We have a neighbors cat that harasses the birds at our feeder!
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Thank you, Dwight. I can always tell when there’s a cat in the vicinity of our feeder. It’s like a mass evacuation.
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Yes that is for sure!
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