Carpe Diem # 1532 - Renga With Richard Wright

Haiku by  Richard Wright

one magnolia 
landed on another 
in the wet - dew grass

granted not earth shattering news
i need to get out more often

I am nobody
A red sinking sun
Took my name away 

I wish it wrote down my address
I cannot find that either

Keep straight down this block
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming



sing some gilbert and sullivan
then wait for the police sirens

Make up your mind, Snail !
You are half inside your house,
And half way out !

the beetles and caterpillars
will move in uninvited

All right, You Sparrows;
The sun has set and you can now
Stop your chattering!

the parrots are complaining and
the trees need their beauty sleep

You moths must leave now;
I am turning out the light
And going to sleep

please collect all your dead rels
on the window ledge by morning

Richard Wright (1908 - 1960 )



 Richard Wright (1908-1960) is the author of “Native Son,” and “Black Boy” and a poet. During the last eighteen months of his life, he discovered haiku and began writing his own – in all, over 4,000 haiku. Our challenge is to create a renga with Richard Wright from six given haiku.