WHCshortverses
Selections: Symbiotic Poetry
Selected by Werner Reichhold
Linked
Cinquain
First
Light
Debra Woolard Bender
Florida, USA
Marjorie Buettner,
Minnesota, USA
first light
above black pine
brings dawn on heron's wing
from eastern shore to western skies
silence
last light
lingering on
and on the distant hills
some deeper loneliness abides
within
deep night
falls between us
through transparent spaces
the shapes of emptiness without
filling
still point
between two worlds
this early morning hour
how I long to cross this timescape
to you
still hour
exists as though
we never lived nor touched
and moving through this this sleep of dreams
I die |
For linked cinquain I see a future as much as for linked tanka.
There is a new world to explore with those techniques. [wr]
"New Forms" Violenga (new forms "colorenga")
(this form was created by Alexis K Rotella)
Sweet Ophelia
Sheila Windsor, UK
Cindy Tebo,
Missouri, USA
composing haiku....I would have missed
the lilac but for its scent
battered wife....the rainbow arc of
her fading bruise
rhythmic sucking....the depth of my
baby's eyes
small sips....a wine taster samples
the burgundy
hendrix....after all these years....same
haze
star amethyst....spokes of light on
the wall
I would give you some violets....sweet
Ophelia
stormy skies the empty house of purple martins
bedtime reading....he blows out the
candle
finally in season....the sun-ripened
plums
your blue....my red....together
knee high thistle....a hobo along
the railroad tracks
In this 'form' every other line introduces a color. Interesting
to try but how many of 'color-collaborations' can be done? [wr]
*Learn
how to collaborate on colorengas and other "new forms"
symbiotic (linked) verse on "still": http://www.into.demon.co.uk/index1.htm
After-Thought
(Ren
#1 of 9, the Wordsworth Papers)
William Wordsworth, Debra Woolard Bender, paul t. conneally
Drawing by Susumu Takiguchi
XXXIV. After-Thought (from The River Duddon, A Series of
Sonnets)
William Wordsworth 1820
I
THOUGHT of Thee, my partner and my guide,
As
being past away.--Vain sympathies!
For,
backward, Duddon, as I cast my eyes,
I see
what was, and is, and will abide;
Still
glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;
The
Form remains, the Function never dies;
While
we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise,
We Men,
who in our morn of youth defied
The
elements, must vanish;--be it so!
Enough,
if something from our hands have power
To
live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if,
as toward the silent tomb we go,
Through
love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel
that we are greater than we know.
still glides the Stream...and in its
gliding
.....................................ever
the same...remains
she was eighteen
when we met by the
river
her black hair
moving with the
breeze
at her shoulders
when I move
........in pace with the
constant stream
................stillness
walking and
searching
my head this
way and that
through busy
streets
hoping to
catch a glimpse
to meet by
accident
a glimmer
...........the smallness of these hands
........................cupping water
*Afterthought"
is a multi-layered "ren" of classic poetry (sonnet) by a
classic European poet, found poetry, zip (a haiku analogue developed
by poet, John E. Carley, Pennines, UK - in this ren, the first haiku
is zip format), haiku, tanka, renku and visual art.
Drawing
is a copy-drawing by Susumu Takiguchi from a red-chalk portrait of
Wordsworth by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875)
**We
are pleased to announce this ren (#1)
will be first published in print in the excellent journal, South
by South East on a date to be announced.
**See
#21 of Fragments
Ongoing Anthology at happa-no-kofu for ren #2 of
the Wordsworth Papers Series, "Her Eyes are
Wild." [DB]
Here,
Debi and Paul, both collaborate with a sonnet done by William
Wordsworth, creating a special 'constellation of poetry'. Hopefully
others will feel inspired by them and try out 'multi-layered genre'.
[wr]
Free
Linking
Old
Poets
Cindy Tebo,
Missouri, USA
Alan Mietlowski
(a free-link poem; theme of "pairs" -
disregarding renku rules concerning repetition; Alan
Mietlowski passed away shortly after this was written)
chess game
two old players
forgetting whose turn it is
alone in the park
two geese
up and down
the flight of twins
on a
seesaw
alone in the sky
two dragon kites
baseball diamond
a pair of boys chasing
the same ground ball
two hawks circle
a deserted field
old pond
answering its mate
a frog
croaks
canyon echo
two crows calling
newlyweds
letting the mules lead
down the
trail
a pair of doves
standing in the rain
cacti
their arms entwined
lovers
kiss
two hummingbirds
sky
diving
tennis match
between husband and wife
40 love
in the waiting room
my father holding his breath
rock, paper, scissors
a couple of hands
operating
roadside temple
two monks
kneeling
a double feature
at the drive-in. . .
no one watching the movie
the sparrow's nest
two eggs unhatched
closed for the season
two deer roam
an amusement
park
laughing children
a pair of clownfish
the full moon
reflected in the creek
a willow
tree
one leaf falls
then another
morning frost
two squirrels gather nuts
beneath the oak
tree
footprints
a second time on the path
mother may I
take two giant steps
forward
on the wooded path
a grandmother and grandson
double dutch
the rhythm
of jump ropes turning
two pine cones lay
beside the jump
rope
freeze tag
one child chasing another
through the snow
two-foot snowbank
a snowplow rushes past
blinding snow
brother and sister
putting on their
parkas
at the end of the field
a pair of rocks
Sunday morning
two bishops
leading the
prayer
a curtain call
for the king and queen
the game ends . . .
a final handshake
between opponents |
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