Triparshva Renku Project: November 2008

 

 

Poets for Triparshva Renku Project: November 2008

 

Norman Darlington	/nd
Karina Klesko	/kk
Eiko Yachimoto	/ey
Betty Kaplan	/bk
John Daleiden	/jd

   

Triparshva Renku Template with verses

 

SIDE 1-JO
	1. wi/hokku- degachi -Long Verse	backs to the wind we gather round a brazier swapping tales     /nd
	2. wi/wakiku- degachi - Short Verse	deer and wolves in the blackest forest    /ey
	3. ns/daisen - degachi -Long Verse	all the old habits hung out on the line at the convent     /kk
	4.ns -degachi -Short Verse	hidden under the doormat the forgotten key     /bk
	5.sp/ mn -dagachi - Long Verse End of dagachi .....	a sliver of moon through the evening haze reveals our path     /jd
	6.sp ---- -Short Verse	water mirrors its shadow the garden's mountain rose / (Muramori)*   /nd  /ey
SIDE 2 - HA
	7. ns- Long Verse	forget us not us with no voting rights shedding as hot tears     /ey
	8.ns- Short Verse	dumping twenty headless bodies in a pit     /nd
	9.su-Long Verse	this morning summer butterflies color my private sky*    /jd
	10. su-lv- Short Verse	midnight sun, fantastic light in fantastic darkness     /kk
	11.ns/lv- Long Verse	we danced and we danced "The Anniversary Waltz"* unaltered by time   /bk
	12 ns/lv- Short Verse	along the wood grain a shelf of photographs     /ey
	13 ns/lv- Long Verse	the whisper of a heart within that first leaf's fall   /nd
	14 au/- Short Verse	fresh red apples at a roadside stand    /jd
	15 au /mn- Long Verse	moon viewing from every window on the train     /kk
	16. au - Short Verse	hero or villain? the nitty grit of jessie james     /bk
SIDE 3-KYU
	17.ns- Long Verse	burning the throat a shot of bourbon punctuates my life     /ey
	18. wi- Short Verse	spin the Hanukkah dreidel nun-gimel-hay-shin     /kk
	19. ns- Long Verse	a whale breaches the unconstrained expansion of a galaxy     /nd
	20. sp-Short Verse	seeds ready for planting a new beginning     /jd
	21. sp/ bl- Long Verse
	22 sp/ageku - Short Verse

 

*Muramori-- Verse 6:  mizu ni kaga sou niwa no yamabuki
                                   the water mirrors its shadow
                                   the garden's mountain rose

                                   translated by Norman Darlington and Eiko Yachimoto

*Your Private Sky-- Verse 9: Your Private Sky is the title of a Buckminster Fuller book and an Exhibition, 1999.

*"The Anniversary Walt"--Verse 11: From James J. Fuld's Book of World-Famous Music (5th ed., 2000, pp. 622-623). Waves of the Danube by I. Ivanovici. Published in 1880 under the title Valurile Dunari for piano by Const. Gebauer, Bucharest, Rumania. [...]  The piece was created for the 1889 Paris Exposition and became a hit; it is played by brass orchestras in the city gardens all over Romania, at weddings and all high society gatherings. The Anniversary Waltz is the name it's known by in Jewish circles. The waltz became widely known and published under various translated titles, including Donauwellen, Flots du Danube and Danube Waves. In 1946 words by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin were set to music under the title Anniversary Song, for the motion picure The Jolson Story. Ion Ivanovici was born in 1845 in Banatul, Rumania, became a popular Rumanian composer and died in Bucharest in 1902.

 

Genre   Title   backs to the wind we gather round a brazier swapping tales      /nd deer and wolves in the blackest forest      /ey all the old habits hung out on the line at the convent      /kk hidden under the doormat the forgotten key      /bk a sliver of moon through the evening haze reveals our path      /jd water mirrors its shadow the garden's mountain rose /(Muramori)*      /nd /ey forget us not us with no voting rights shedding as hot tears      /ey dumping twenty headless bodies in a pit      /nd this morning summer butterflies color my private sky*      /jd midnight sun, fantastic light in fantastic darkness      /kk we danced and we danced "The Anniversary Waltz"* love unaltered by time      /bk along the wood grain a shelf of photographs     /ey fresh red apples at a roadside stand    /jd moon viewing from every window on the train     /kk hero or villain? the nitty grit of jessie james     /bk burning the throat a shot of bourbon punctuates my life     /ey spin the Hanukkah dreidel nun-gimel-hay-shin     /kk a whale breaches the unconstrained expansion of a galaxy     /nd seeds ready for planting a new beginning     /jd     —