KAMESAN & KAMESAN, a six-verse rensaku No.1

 

KAMESAN & KAMESAN, a six-verse renga No.1

Dimitar Anakiev uses the haiku name, Kamesan. Hisashi Miyazaki’s first name is written with the character 亀 (kame, turtle) and consequently has the nickname, Kame-san. The two got together recently on the internet and produced a linked verse.

Such a long ginko1—

jotting down poetry

using a goldenrod2

- - Kamesan (Dimitar Anakiev)

Typhoon Jebi3—

its gift, in our garden

a reed screen4

- - Kamesan (Hisashi Miyazaki)

From Kamesan to

Kamesan—cheerful rainbow

over the great storm

- - Kamesan D.

West/East Kamesans meet

in cyber space—

equinox

- - Kamesan H.

Naming something and

naming nothing: a turtle

swimming in the pool

- - Kamesan D.

Today loved by

Japanese Kamesan, too—

that cat, Momcilo5

- - Kamesan H.

Notes: 1 composition stroll; 2 strong-stemmed, yellow-flowered solidago; 3 Sep. 2018, Typhoon #21, the worst storm to strike Japan in 25 years; 4 sudare, hung outside windows to protect rooms from hot sun; 5 name of Kamesan D’s cat, star of a prize-winning haibun, Soldier’s Woundwort, in the 2017 Genjuan Contest (https://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/genjuan-17-winning-haibun/).