Collaborative Poetry Tan-Renga by Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin

 

Collaborative Poetry Tan-Renga by Uchechukwu Onyedikam and Christina Chin

1

new apartment 

she swaggers past

the floral path

a butterfly unfolds

its wings

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

2

rainy Friday 

all the thoughts of

being unattached

break free 

a moth’s first flight

— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin

3

always the widow 

when the man dies

baldhead 

a reincarnate 

in chrysalis 

— 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)