Five Tan-Renga Poems - Collaboration by Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam

 

Five Tan-Renga Poems - Collaboration by Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam

consecrated 

and dedicated to Arusi

she grows fangs

for lying to the witch

asylum nightmare 

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

 

 

 

in the bowl

of water

the lizard runs amok

a broken tail

wriggles

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

 

ancient carvings 

on cave walls of the dead

animals come alive

the Buddhist monks

recite mantras and prayers

— Christina Chin/Uchechukwu Onyedikam

 

 

the campfire

crackling and popping

night of the jungle 

some strange noises

in the bushes

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

 

 

unexpected guest 

August visit

waking up—

slime covered floor

with slugs

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 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. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.

Uchechukwu Onyedikam is a Nigerian creative artist based in Lagos, Nigeria.  His poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brittle Paper, Poetic Africa, Hood Communists, The Hooghly Review, and in print anthologies.  Christina Chin and he have co-published Pouring Light on the Hills (2022)