In azure sky
the waning moon's
daybreak
in the autumn lake
Mt. Hira's first frost
This week we start our new project Renku, in which artists are invited to collaborate and make music in response to a bi-weekly assigned renku poem.
Haiku poetry has its roots in a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry called Renku, which consists of two different stanzas: the image developed in the first one (a three-line verse, the origin of haiku) is contrasted to (or augmented by) a related image in the final two-lines. The juxtaposition of the two stanzas produces more meaning than either part could by itself: these two sections are written by two different poets.
Poem by Kyorai & Basho
Picture by Nick Kenrick
You have fourteen days from the posting of this renku poem to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/renku page.
Submission deadline: 27th July 2016