Forbidden Seas
6-Link #Rengay ©️ 6/15/26

Sargasso Sea
what goes around
comes around

Lone sock paradise
The Bermuda Triangle

slack tide
I keep confusing
port and starboard

Starfish
On the port side
Tide tumbled

weighing anchor
a superpod of dolphins

Luminous traces
Forbidden seas
Flotsom recollected

@extraspecialbitter @NaraMoore
Image: Credit: VELY Michel / Wikimedia Commons

Forbidden Seas
6-Link #Rengay ©️ 6/15/26
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore
Image: Credit: VELY Michel / Wikimedia Commons

#Poetry #Tanka #Haiku #NMPoetry #Sea

Windswept Streets--A rengay-style, linked-verse poem by: Paul David Mena, Nara Moore, & Mark Brigham
12 June 2026

windswept streets
the shadows
play tricks on me

freight train rumble
mountain pine bow

four-day weekend
lawyer with a rose tattoo
hops the train

changing at Jamaica
sunglasses replace bifocals

alley beckons
soft crooning lilt
smiling maiden

a busker singing Fast Car
dreadlocks blow across her face

Harvard Square Station
the cellist begins
a Brahms sonata

sax on the stairs
joins a mournful tune

college recruits pause
ponder probabilities
Harvard or State?

ivy or bittersweet?
the graduate's dilemma

tricks played
not but his gown
sour notes

dollar note blows—from
a guitar case—down Church Street

#haiku #rengay #CollaborativePoetry #CollaborativePoem #LinkedVerse #LinkedVersePoetry #poetry #poem

[ this poem was developed in a thread initiated by Paul David Mena: https://indieauthors.social/@extraspecialbitter/116728867957641080 ]

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Red Rose White Rose

Six-link #rengay by @extraspecialbitter @NaraMoore

star-crossed lovers
there is nothing new
under the waning moon

The waxing moon
Speaks to fiery blood

out, out, brief candle!
an unsent letter
crumpled to her bosom

Dagger thrust
both houses plagued
Blades cross

Jets and Sharks —
blood under the bridge

Quiet tomb
Blood grown cold
Montague Capulet

June 19th is Juneteenth. Is anyone interested in participating in a #Rengay poem on the day with the theme #deliverance?

DM me. Slots and format, depending on the number of people, will be posted on the 18th.

Rengay: composed of 6 links of 3-2-3-3-2-3 lines for 2 people, or 3-2-3-2-3-2 for 3 people.
4 people: 8 inks: 3-2-3-2-2-3-2-3

#Wss366 #PoetryCommunity #Haiku
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@MarkBrigham
@asakiyume
@stevendbrewer
@DaveHiggins

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changing at Jamaica
sunglasses replace bifocals

#rengay #PoetryOnTheFly

@NaraMoore

rough seas
an unoccupied wheelchair
rides the ferry

#rengay #PoetryOnTheFly

@extraspecialbitter

Freight train rumble
Mountain pine bow

#Rengay #PoetryOnTheFly

Ragweed Unicorn

Six-verse #rengay by
@extraspecialbitter
@DaveHiggins
@NaraMoore

A grub-sculpted bloom
Woven with gossamer veil
Gilt smears my fingers

Aphididae swarm
Narcissus no more

wild daffodils
all I can remember
from last night's dream

Vibrant xanthous rags
Scattering pollen

Wilderness field
Not as poets dream
or painted

blue dahlias
in the unicorn's mane