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June 25, 2015 By Linda Papancolaou 12 Comments

The Renku Sessions: Introduction to Triparshva

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Welcome to the third Renku Session. I’m Linda Papanicolaou, and I’m leading this journey in collaborative poetry. Triparshva is a 22-verse form developed by Norman Darlington in 2005. It’s a good form for composing online because it moves more quickly than the 36-verse kasen, while also following the jo-ha-kyu (beginning-development-rapid closure) pattern of traditional renku. So whether you’re new to renku, or simply want to keep your skills honed, you’re especially encouraged to join us.  Here are some links and resources to help you come up to speed:

 

About Triparshva as a Renku Form:

  • Norman Darlington and John Carley, “The Triparshva,” Simply Haiku, Summer 2005
  • “Saint Brigid’s Day,” the first Triparshva to be published in English, by John Carley, Patricia Prime and Norman Darlington, Kokako 2005
  • John E. Carley, Renku Reckoner, ed. Norman Darlington and Moira Richards (2013, print ed. Lulu 2015), sample pages are online through Google Books. A chapter on triparshva and an example may be found on pp. 41-45.

Recommended Season Word Lists and Topic Lists:

Understanding season is crucial for renku.  Here are three online saijiki (season word lists) I use often ad recommend.

  • Kenkichi Yamamoto, “The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words,” tr. Kris Kondo and William J. Higginson, online at Renku Home (2000, updated 2005)
  • ” The Yuki Teikei Season Word List”, online at Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 1997.
  • World Kigo Database, ed. Gabi Greve, also includes links to a number of regional kigo lists and saijiki.

A list of topics and topic categories is also useful for diversity, so it’s also recommended to keep one bookmarked for reference. Kondo and Higginson have published two from Japanese renku clubs on Renku Home.

Archived Posts and Comment Threads: The full set of calls for verses, submissions and discussions on the comments threads may be accessed here.

The Renku So Far: The following is our renku to date, updated as the renku progresses and verses are placed. We are following Norman Darlington’s schema by for a summer triparshva, published in Simply Haiku and in Renku Reckoner (pp. 41-42).

Side 1: jo

1.
a bowl of cherries
sitting on each white plate
someone’s name
~Lynne Rees /su

2.
under a canvas tent
the snap of a breeze
~Barbara Kaufmann /su

3.
passersby stop
to applaud a subway
saxophone player
~Karen Cesar / ns

4.
sweet reminiscences
of our bygone days
~Barbara A. Taylor / ns

5.
yet again
the moon lights the loggerhead
as she digs
~Paul MacNeil / sp mn

6.
with the twittering
morning mist clears away
~Maria Tomczak

Side 2: Ha

7.
from the mountain top
Puyallup natives trace
their lands below
~Carmen Sterba / ns

8.
who left the doors open
to Valhalla?
~Polona Oblak/ ns

9.
rusty roofing iron
repurposed
as a letterbox
~Sandra Simpson / ns

10.
#smitten #diamond #yes
#winterwedding
~Christopher Patchel / wi lv

11.
at the Marquise
a clandestine romp
in neon flicker
~Judt Shrode / ns lv

12.
his better half chambers
another round just because
~Betty Shropshire / ns lv

13.
after a while
the life boat for refugees
hardly floating
~Vasile Moldovan / ns

14.
the first pawlonia leaf
to touch the soil
~Maureen Virchau / au

15.
how the setting moon
fills the garden
with darkness!
~Gabriel Sawicki / au mn

16.
I stagger through cricket songs
impaired by Gandalf Grog
~Patrick Sweeney / au

Side 3: Kyu

17.
all the children
mark off their days
with chunky crayons
~Beth McFarland / ns

18.
jackets warming
by the wood burning stove
~Joel / wi

19.
a peal of bells
from across town
announces early Mass
~Marion Clarke / ns

20.
the border collie
herds freshly shorn ewes
~Agnes Eva Savich / sp

21,
fools
always find a perfect one:
apple blossom
~Todd Treloar-Rhodes / sp bl

22.
on the count of three
we let the kite go
~Liz Ann Winkler / sp

Filed Under: Renku Sessions Tagged With: Renku3, triparshva

Comments

  1. sprite says

    June 29, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Have anice trip…. and Triparshva

    Reply
  2. Pat Kopanda says

    June 26, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    our gathering
    interrupting theirs
    the squirrel scolds

    or

    one chair short
    the latecomer
    sits n the grass

    Reply
  3. Paul MacNeil says

    June 26, 2015 at 9:36 am

    backlit clouds
    hot pink crepe myrtle
    bending low

    ***

    bright-sky lake
    the two young loons
    learning to fish

    ***

    puffy clouds
    a bee heavy laden
    with pollen

    ***
    notes to Linda, probably not news . . .
    ***
    crepe myrtle in the US (exists all over the world) blooms in summer in the southern regions at a minimum. Here in Florida they arrive with the heat!

    ***

    in most of the northern regions of N. America, loons nest in June and raise the chick(s) in July and August.

    – Paul

    Reply
  4. Paul MacNeil says

    June 26, 2015 at 9:23 am

    Congratulations Linda — a great start!

    Three to a customer in the next stanzas?

    Poets should note this reply server doesn’t take line spaces. To separate entries one should use a dash or asterisk to cause spacing.

    Best to you and to all renkuers, or renkuistas ? – Paul

    Reply
    • Linda Papancolau says

      June 28, 2015 at 3:53 am

      Hi, all! I have been out of touch in the rainforests of Northern Queensland and I’m delighted to arrive back to find that the posts I’ve drafted are online and that such an enthusiastic response already.

      Reply
    • Linda Papancolau says

      June 28, 2015 at 7:15 am

      Thanks for the tip, Paul!

      Reply
      • Betty Shropshire says

        June 29, 2015 at 3:44 pm

        Hiya Linda!

        As with Paul, curious as to the number that one may submit…3 or sky’s the limit????? ☺ Betty

        Reply
  5. Ellen Grace Olinger says

    June 26, 2015 at 8:33 am

    Dear Linda, I enjoyed your post and then read your Haiku Registry page. I look forward to learning more here – a new form for me. Best wishes, Ellen

    Reply
  6. Marion Clarke says

    June 25, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Yesss – another renku session! Looking forward, Linda 🙂

    marion

    Reply
  7. marsha egan says

    June 25, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    Looking forward to being part of thisMarsha E.

    Reply
  8. Deborah Barbour Lundy says

    June 25, 2015 at 11:15 am

    Looking forward to following this poem’s journey.

    Reply
  9. Norman Darlington says

    June 25, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Wonderful news! I’m looking forward very much to watching this poem unfold under Linda Papanicolaou’s able and skilful leadership.

    Reply

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