Five Tan-Renga Poems - Collaboration by Kim Olmtak Gomes & Christina Chin

 

Tan-Renga Poems

1 

 

tropical night 

dogs' barking ~

ghost shadows

night of the seventh 

lunar month

 

2 

 

guava

for the plucking ~

grandpa's tree

bends precariously  

over the stream    

 

Kim Olmtak Gomes/Christina Chin

 

3 

 

father's catch ~

grandma's mackerel

salt dish

the aroma lingers

in the neighbourhood 

 

Kim Olmtak Gomes/Christina Chin

 

4

 

campfire      

sunset

in the savanna

a boat trip tour 

along the river

 

Kim Olmtak Gomes/ Christina Chin

5 

 

summer garden 

high tea ~

six o'clock news

shrill chirping

cicadas

 

Christina Chin / Kim Olmtak Gomes

Kim Olmtak Gomes - was born in Suriname, South America, where she currently resides. Kim teaches English language. At present retired, she still teaches on a parttime basis.

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet. 

She is four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests. They were exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, Califonia. 

She is the sole haiku contributor for the MusArt book of Randall Vemer's paintings published by ArtReach Publication, Portland, Oregon. 

1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest.  

1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest and won two City Soka Saitama's 2020 haiku prizes. She is published in numerous journals, multilingual journals and anthologies including Japan's haiku monthly magazine, Haikukai (俳句界).

https://haikuzyg.blogspot.com/

and https://christinachin99blog.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/Christina_haiku?s=09