Lit eZine Vol 5 | p-20 | POETRY | Tan-Renga – Manic Sylph Writes… Poetry & Thoughts by Mona Soorma

SHORT POEM

TAN-RENGA
by Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam

Peace under blue skies — *Image by* *NoName_13*

1
children dream 
where love rises 
hatred dies 
the bloom of 
young cherry trees 

2 
poverty 
nations wrestle under 
skies painted blue 
a single file traffic 
of almajiri 

3 
poor reception 
a radio broadcast 
piercing the air 
the plea for peace 
and to share a world

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 “mad”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. In 2022, he and Christina Chin, co-published a book called Pouring Light on the Hills, and they have another book, Clouds of Pink, scheduled to be released in 2024 by LJMcD Communications.