Before it spills, or: A rengay

A two-person ‘Rengay’

By Carol Anne and David

Rengay?

Rengay is a form of linked verse created as an alternative to Japanese renga or renku. The form was devised by Garry Gay in California in 1992. A rengay consists of six thematic haiku verses and is normally composed by two or three poets, although solo and six-person rengay are not uncommon.

This form actually requires a bit of explanation, so I recommend that you read about it HERE.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

From Hell to Heaven

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Enemies, or: A rengay

A two-person ‘Rengay’

By Jodi Taube and David Bogomolny

Rengay?

Rengay is a form of linked verse created as an alternative to Japanese renga or renku. The form was devised by Garry Gay in California in 1992. A rengay consists of six thematic haiku verses and is normally composed by two or three poets, although solo and six-person rengay are not uncommon.

This form actually requires a bit of explanation, so I recommend that you read about it HERE.

A personal note

This rengay feels different to me. It’s the first one I’ve written with a friend I know in person, someone who lives just down the street from me in Jerusalem. That proximity adds a layer of shared space to our collaboration. For me, it seems to echo the poem itself, where the line between inside and outside is never quite stable.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Apahij Nahi Hoon

Quietly
The disquiet grows
“I ain’t going nowhere” it says
Ok, fine, stay
But I ain’t no fool
I have my stategies, you know,
To deal with the likes of you
Many strategies in fact
One comes to mind
I will start ignoring myself
Little by little, inch by inch
Every passing day
Until one fine day I wake up
And find the world’s no more
Survive that, O disquiet!!

A quotation from Horace

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

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Mug I am tense https://mug.zouluvo.com/i-am-tense/

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