Tan Renga: Such a Hot Day

two whippets on a forest trail, one ready to climb higher
a blue and white whippet running down a hill

such a hot day
my shadow needs to cool down
under the willow

© Kyoshi Takahama

the leaves create music
where grasshoppers sing

© Xenia Tran

two whippets on a hilly forest trail


Kristjaan at Carpe Diem has invited us to create a Tan Renga with the given haiku by Kyoshi Takahama (1874-1958). A Tan Renga is a short, chained poem written by two poets. It looks very similar to a Tanka, but a Tanka is written by one poet.

We wish you all a happy Monday and a blessed week ahead,

with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/250 s – ISO 160 and f/2.8 – 1/200 s – ISO 100.

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Author: whippetwisdom

The stories, poems and photographs on this blog are the original creative work of Xenia Tran. Inspired by life in the Scottish Highlands and in awe of nature she gives voice to the wisdom of her adopted and fostered whippets.

31 thoughts on “Tan Renga: Such a Hot Day”

  9. Indeed So Hot Here on SunDay
    Afternoon And MonDay as
    Our AC Broke on the
    Hottest Day of
    the Year hehe
    So Pleasing Waiting
    Out the Heat How Will 86F
    And 89F Do This Environment
    Inside.. SMiLes Xenia When the
    Cool Comes Again Scotland
    Breeze Fall
    Indoors
    to Feel
    Out of Heat
    to the Miracle Cure
    of Scotland Falls in
    Summer Florida Panhandle
    Sweaty Otherwise Blue And
    Very Humid Skies hehe as DarK
    Brings LiGHT
    Truly Better
    Than Cable TV HAha..;)

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  12. Pingback: #Haikai Challenge #153 (8/22/20): cricket (koorogi) / #154 (8/29/20): morning-glory (asagao) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga – Frank J. Tassone

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