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Selections: Symbiotic Poetry: Rengay
Selected
by Debi Bender
Note:
Since
all submitted rengay seem to fulfil the expectations for this form,
I didn't make selections. This way, and after the readers read my
essay titled, A Few More Words
About Symbiotic Poetry, included in the August World Haiku
Review, I feel there is perhaps a better base for a discussion.
~ Werner Reichhold, Editor, Lynx,
a Journal for Linking Poets
Rengay
is a contemporary six-verse form of linked haiku based on a unifying
theme. Written by 2-3 partners, each link should be able to stand on
its own. Derived from renku, but much different, theme development
is the key element of rengay. Rengay incorporates the "link and
shift" idea of renku, but its brevity makes it easier to read
(and publish). Because it is thematic, it is more accessible. Rengay
was developed in 1992 by Garry
Gay, co-founder of the Haiku Poets of Northern California, and
the organization's first president from 1989-1990. In 1991, he was
elected president of the Haiku Society of America.
The
first rengay contest was held in 1995. In 1995, Garry Gay, John
Thompson and Michael Dylan Welch privately published the first
rengay anthology, entitled Hammerhorn.
How
to Rengay
2
partners (A & B) - Template pattern of alteration between 3
and 2 line links:
A-3
· B-2 · A-3 · B-3 · A-2 · B-3
3
partners (A & B & C) -Template pattern of alteration
between 3 and 2 line links:
A-3
· B-2 · C-3 · A-2 · B-3 · C-2
june
sky
an'ya petrovich
hortensia anderson
lotus pond --
rings of blue
petals
open to morning
the dive ino a pool -
cool liquid
aquamarine
looking glass . . .
a girlchild's eye color
pales the june sky
after the end
of Gemini
-
second full moon
finish line --
a 1st place ribbon
corner saloon --
deepening shadows
turn
indigo |
White
Lilac
Sheila Windsor
Cindy Tebo
almost time
to scent the summer air
white lilac
cooling off
a fly on the watermelon seed
a robin eyes me
leaning on the hoe
dad used
sweaty palms
a boy lets go
of the monkey bars
my friend's voice
stumbling over divorce
fresh cut
each lock of fallen hair
swept away |
Noon
John Wisdom
Cindy Tebo
noon sun- *
a dead catfish iridescent
in broken shells
waves come and go
the butterfly on a sandbar
field of buttercups
the boy releases a kite
to the red
sky
biological father
a long paper trail
across the ocean
orphan kittens
an old box on fisherman's wharf
scrimshaw
her sailor's name
in the southern cross
* noon sun haiku published in
Modern Haiku Vol. XXX 11 Summer 2001
|
School's
Out
John Wisdom
Cindy Tebo
school's out
a report card flaps
between bicycle spokes
free falling
before the parachute opens
sunlit meadow
the mockingbird's spiral
after a shotgun blast
old farmer
his wheat field
overgrown with cedars
estate sale
the barn owl's nest still intact
snow cone stand
the girl with blue lips
shivering |
Into
Verse
sheila windsor
an'ya petrovich
our candle burns low
shadows of table flowers
pattern the
ceiling
tree frog voices --
channelled into verse
back in your arms
for the last dance, the way
our steps still
rhyme
its brakes unlocked
after a cyclone - again
windmill blades
spin
in a ray of sunlight, chaff lifts
and twirls golden before
blue
peaceful solstice
. . . the poetic raillery
of two like-souls |
playing
around
kirsty
karkow
an'ya petrovich
white fence
the mare's soft nose
nudges my
pocket
sunlit field
the foal rolls in wild
clover
playing around
-- the feral kitten
releases a
vole
on the carrousel
her whole summer passes by
for a golden ring
modern jousting
his lance catches the
prize
a new moon . . .
coastguardsmen patrol the beach
on horseback |
stars
on the sea
hortensia anderson
an'ya
sheila
windsor
circle of stones -
our driftwood fire sparks
in the night sky
after a gale . . .
sifting jewels from the sand
beach wedding
the laughter of gulls
takes our vows
stars on the sea
the water serpent
slithers
autumn sunrise
a plastic Virgin Mary
washes ashore
home with news of a poor catch
the salt sting in his kiss |
Essay:
A
Few More Words About Symbiotic Poetry by Werner Reichhold
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