Carpe Diem invites us to create a tan renga in response to this haiku which Kikaku wrote for his mentor, Basho, when Basho lay ill and dying…
how I wish to call
a white crane from Fukei
…but for this cold rain.
© Kikaku
listen…white crane’s lonesome cry
echos torrential sadness
© lynn__
wood block print by Eiichi Kotozuka
a poem in my pocket 
Jun 03, 2019 @ 16:55:35
white cranes are the symbol of long life … eh was wishing for more time 🙂
Jun 04, 2019 @ 09:08:52
thanks for your comment…perhaps my words missed the symbolism but caught the emotion 🙂
Jun 04, 2019 @ 16:24:44
indeed they did!