*A collaboration with my Queen of Sonnets,who I consider a dear friend, Melinda Kucsera of In Media Res.
Rebirth*: A Renkay**
Through bright light I rise
Endless night I leave behind
From a corpse set free
Body lays frozen
As warm soul flies, awaken
Is my life’s taken?
Into light divine
The source of life I see
Death is a doorway
Feet leads to stairway
Towards the place for the dead,
Also for rebirth.
Mounting the risers
I ascend towards heaven
Its pearl gates call me.
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P.S. Thank you, Mel, for sharing your pen with me again! It is always, always a delight! Good luck on your new book. ❤
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Photo credit: Pixabay
Word Inspiration: Sarah Doughty of Heartstring Eulogies (Thank you, Sarah!)
Renkay is a shorter American variation of the Renga. It fosters developmental linking in which the poets move the poem through a theme. It allows for linking of previously written haiku, unlike the renga’s spontaneity.
Renkay is:
- usually communal, written by more than one poet. (It can also be written by just one poet.) The change of poet can either be indicated by initials to the side of the stanza or in this day of computers, by italics or change of font.
- stanzaic, 5 linked tercets.
- syllabic, each stanza is 17 syllables or less, usually written in 3 lines of short-long-short pattern of the haiku, sort of.
- composed around a common theme.
- often composed with a senyru as the final stanza.
Amazing piece of writing.
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oh wow. thank you!
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Lovely collaborative poem!
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Yay! thank you, dear PJ!
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Wow. 💕 💕
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YAAAY! ❤ ❤ ❤ That means a lot!
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Wow, this verses reaches out to take hold of us. The wonderfully exploding sky (that is the image) is a promise fulfilled in the spirit-propelled (soul-propelled) stanzas. A feast of life–afterlife, divinity! Thank you, Rosema and Mel!
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Wow! Wow! That comment of yours surely took my breath away, brother! Thank you very much!
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You two show us the magic in creation!
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awww. thank you!
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thank you for reading and enjoying the piece. It was Rosema’s idea. I was honored to be asked to contribute lines 🙂
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Awww. you’re too humble. take the credit, we’re suppose to share it! 😉
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Rosema had a great idea. And you co-created a marvel.
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i agree brother!
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Thank you 🙂 i like playing in other writers’ sandboxes 🙂
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❤ ❤ ❤
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I agree–truly amazing…I’m hushed ❤
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Awwwww. Thank you my dear sweet sissy! ❤
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Most welcome always ❤
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❤
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❤
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Beautiful. What we all hope will be he case someday.
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yes, you are right! thank you, Mandi!
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“death is doorway” my fav line!
xoxo
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oh thank you, Rashi!
P.S. I found your comments in my spam box. I’m sorry. darling.
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now that you read them no probzz! 🙂
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Thank you! ❤
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