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I’m bumping this renga up to a sixteen verse length. This might make it too long, but I decided I’d like to play around with allowing more time for themes to expand. We’ll see how it goes!
Adiel contributed this beginning verse:
wide eyes
small hands
in a big world
innocence
a beautiful shine
the glowing embers
cast before
the gathered storm
winds [...]

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We’re back! I know, I know, it’s about time. If you’ve forgotten how this works, check out the aptly named How This Works and About Renga pages in the sidebar. Now start writing some renga!
(This time we have Gabrielle to thank for starting us off.)
gray sky
yellow lamplight
shining on my book
mere letters on paper
creating [...]

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This time we’re going to try out a seasonal shift in the renga. We start out with the season we’re in and continue as normal (with or without referencing seasons or seasonal words) for a few verses before we go on to the next season. In a twelve verse renga we’ll change seasons after [...]

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In accord with renga tradition I asked Seth to start the renga. His hokku (the first verse) is below; I have added the second verse myself.

searching in the night the sounds of distant music lead us far from home
ignore the dancing shadows moonlight glows upon the path
ignore the sounds [...]

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