yotsumono

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A writing exercise conceived by one Mr. John E. Carley
to facilitate the creation and understanding
of modern renku poetry forms.


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all the blackbirds
eye balling each other
strung out / jm

surfing debt on a
slow fuse to China / jec

satellite dishes
pointing south
dance with the stars / jm

etched on the emu's egg
yam dreaming / l




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cherry blossom
drifts by my mouth
and disappears / jm

loving every moment
a mayfly / jec

each and every
glass of water
full of gratitude / jm

the syrup all spun
into fairy floss / l


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Solo Rengay/Travel-WestCoast

duty free
whales lingering
in eel grass

vernal equinox
the tides go slack

songs of humpback
traveling through water
migrating current

trumpet flowers
in the north wind
sound of jazz

dressed for the cold
memory of pine

the road
to my mountain home
once under the sea

John Merryfield
April 2, 2009