New Moon Haiku🐅

Beautiful renga, Jade.

It is so refreshing to read true Eastern haiku/senryu.

This haijin humbly thanks the Sage One.

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clever construction - I like

Thank you most respectfully, SweetO.

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"... jadeite stone of quality"
no doubt about that.

Thank you, dear Josh, so kind...

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I just love the restraint that short form requires -
and you handle it like the Buddha meditating - expertly -
can I put it on my reading list twice?

tomcat

Thank you so much, my tomcat.

I’m totally in my element whenever I go there.  Remember, what I said just recently?  

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I'm not familiar with senryu, but am awed by this.  The linkage between the stanzas is so clever!  Love to see a hunter provide the mother tiger her entrée.  Himself.  Fine work.

Why thank you, my dear crowfly friend, for your insight and for appreciating the layers of the renga’s stream, x

Jadey🐾

Reading the stanzas carefully, I find images unfolding in the mind's eye, not unlike the opening stanzas of your write. It is so interesting to think of the moon and stars, the celestial, in more organic terms. The capacity to create metaphors, to relate seemingly unrelated concepts, is a wonder of the neocortex. My stepfather, a brilliant but emotionally immature man, purported alien intelligence would be, by nature, hostile, as only predators develop higher thinking capacities to overcome the instincts of prey. I find that, though the universe is physically hostile, the conscious nature of the universe is an unfolding of perpetual love.

Your write has a distinctly Japanese feel to it. I have read a great deal of Haruki Murakami, more recently, but many Japanese authors over the years. The culture has fascinating subtlety over deep wells of feeling.

Daniel

My gracious thanks to you, Daniel, for gifting me these serenely layered insights to this seeking haijin novice, even after eleven years to date as a student, after Basho and Issa.  
 
Jade🙏🏻