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A Handful: a rengay

Debra Woolard Bender

Friday, July 26th, 2002

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 a rengay
by paul terrence conneally (UK) and Debra Woolard Bender (US)
completed by e-mail 9/12/00

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 blackberry stains
he brings home a handful
of green acorns 1/ptc

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 rim of his soccer cap
turned to the back 2/dwb

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 three bruises
his shin pads spoiled
in the washer 3/ptc

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 thump thump thump
scooting down the stairs
on his bum 4/dwb

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 boys in the street bond
fists flying 5/ptc

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 torn pant cuffs
a small frog leaps
from one wet pocket 6/dwb

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 (See this poem as photo-renku at World Haiku Review):
http://www.worldhaikureview.org/pages/whcmmfroginhand.shtml

© Debra Woolard Bender & Paul Conneally

Notes

A rengay is a contemporary linked verse developed by Garry Gay of the US. It is a development out of the Japanese renku, which is a participation (or symbiotic) poem of a fixed number of linked stanzas with various game rules. The rengay is a themed, 6 stanza poem in which 1-3 poets alternate 3 & 2 line stanzas. More about rengay can be found at GarryGay’s photography – poetry website at:

http://www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/ggayweb/rengay.html

(But for more information about soccer, you’ll have to ask Paul Conneally!!!)

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-handful-a-rengay/