Through dark eyes, I seek
passion within the cesspool of pain
calling out…
Its' ragged voice taunting me,
I am unloved, unneeded
Reaching into the abyss
swallowing hard, hands trembled,
shadows laugh…
Twisted voices in the night,
echo through the swirling mist
Light flickers within my tearful eyes
as wings now form
to carry you…
From the dreamless depths of night,
A flickering flame ignites
Pain’s seed has been shattered by
A soft angels kiss
then cleansed away…
Author notes
Poetic Form: Renga
Renga, meaning "linked poem," began over seven hundred years ago in Japan to encourage the collaborative composition of poems. Poets worked in pairs or small groups, taking turns composing the alternating three-line and two-line stanzas. Linked together, renga were often hundreds of lines long, though the favored length was a 36-line form called a kasen. Several centuries after its inception, the opening stanza of renga gave rise to the much shorter haiku.
To create a renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem’s end.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5788
First Real Collaboration piece done with Volfeng, and it was a pleasure to do. I thank you hon for the inpspiration you had laid upon my heart. Hopefully we can pen more again.
He is a must read find him here: http://allpoetry.com/Volfeng
if you cant find him there he is over at my crib sucking down coffee LOL. ( the 75th cup)
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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this is a beautiful collab and a different form to what I am use to reading but is still amazingly put together with a lot of thought. i love this well dpone to the both of you
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A different form for you and a different sort of collaboration, always great to see you expanding your range. Nice work both of you
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She honors me far more than I deserve with this collab, and I would love to do another if she will have me, she made it work. Love you Tory!
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