1991


AHA Books Online Summer 2005		APA-Renga/Lynx 20 YEARS OF RENGA



	*In these Participation Renga from Lynx* you will find links from: AB Alice Benedict BJ Bob Jessup CC Carlos Colón CF Vikki Celeste Fannin CG Cindy Guntherman CSK Carol Stroh Kemp dht Doris H. Thurston DPK Deborah P. Kolidji DR David Rice DWP Darrel W. Parry EF Eric Folsom ESJ Elizabeth St Jacques FA Fay Aoyagi FP Francine Porad FPA Francis (Paul) Attard GD Gene Doty GM Giselle Maya GR George Ralph GV Geert Verbeke JAJ Jean Jorgensen JJO Joyce J. Owens JC Jeanne Cassler JMB John M. Bennett JR Jane Reichhold JS John Sheirer JSJ Joyce Sandeen Johnson KCL Ken C. Leibman LCG Larry C. Gross LE Lesley Einer LJ Lael Johnson MHH Madeline Hoffer ML Minna Lerman MM Marianne Marks MWM Mary Wittry-Mason N Nika NA Nasira Alma PC Penny Crosby PGC Pamela Connor PJS P.J. Sharpe PS Pat Shelley R Ronan RF Robert Flannery SCH Suzette Hains SD Simon Doubleday SMc Steve McComas TLG Terri Lee Grell TV Teresa Volz TW Tundra Wind WEG Elliot Greig WR Werner Reichhold YH Yvonne Hardenbrook ZP Zane Parks LYNX** PARTICIPATION RENGA HOW TO DO IT To join in participation renga, read the whole poem, especially the last line or lines in italic. Read the "rules" as stated under the title. Pick the link in BOLD *italic* you find best, worthy, interesting and write your responding link. Check the hokku poet's rules once more to make sure yours fits. Send the title of the renga, the link and author to which your link with your initials responds. Subscribers may send in up to 10 links total. You cannot respond to your own links. To start a participation renga, submit a hokku; (the first link (stanza) of a renga). The hokku usually contains the title of the renga. Your submission should indicate a title; the theme or premise (if any); the format (3-line links, 2-line links, etc.); and the total number of links that will complete the renga (not over 12, please). When you start a renga, think of it as YOUR renga and keep working with the new links as they arrive. Too often a renga is started but not "cared for" later. Lynx does not edit hokku or links in this section. However, links that clearly neglect the hokku poet's guidelines will not be published. Once a renga is established, Lynx publishes all branches of that renga, as long as poets keep feeding them links. Lynx drops any hokku or branch that no one feeds. The previous links are printed in one line just to save space. Send your links to us by email with the words "participation renga" as subject line. You may also send your links by regular post to: LYNX, POB 1250, Gualala, CA 95445, USA.	NANCY SMILES AND SAYS Childhood. Nine verses. Started: October, 1988 Finished: Spring, 1991 Nancy smiles and says she’s brown because she ate too much soy sauce Robert Flannery two year old’s bed time teenager out saturday night seniority authority challenged Bob Jessup middle name thunder decoder rings a call for Zorro Celeste Fannin thunder, perfect mind "written by unknown revealer" she runs for a purple crayon Terri Lee Grell across her buttocks multi-colored welts no one sees Jean A. Jorgensen all in the rose family why do cherries bloom with no leaves, huh, why? CF rehearsing First Communion Sister, can I wear tennis shoes in the Sanctuary? RF Gladly, my cross-eyed bear, Praying, when they pass the money, Takes two dollars Judith J. Owens NANCY SMILES AND SAYS Nancy smiles and says she’s brown because she ate too much soy sauce Robert Flannery two year old’s bed time teenager out saturday night seniority authority challenged Bob Jessup middle name thunder decoder rings a call for Zorro Celeste Fannin thunder, perfect mind "written by unknown revealer" she runs for a purple crayon Terri Lee Grell black and white the land of sky blue wa-ha-ters CF crooked fingers play at baby’s chin git-che-gu-mee Marianne Marks daddy long legs hang-gliding from the bedpost TLG "ABC" gum hastily pressed behind the headboard Mary Wittry-Mason well blow me down bubbles in the bathtub CF NANCY SMILES AND SAYS Nancy smiles and says she’s brown because she ate too much soy sauce Robert Flannery two year old’s bed time teenager out saturday night seniority authority challenged Bob Jessup middle name thunder decoder rings a call for Zorro Celeste Fannin thunder, perfect mind "written by unknown revealer" she runs for a purple crayon Terri Lee Grell black and white the land of sky blue wa-ha-ters CF crooked fingers play at baby’s chin git-che-gu-mee Marianne Marks daddy long legs hang-gliding from the bedpost TLG "ABC" gum hastily pressed behind the headboard Mary Wittry-Mason One at a time, peas Drop into open mouth Under the chair Judith J. Owens NANCY SMILES AND SAYS Nancy smiles and says she’s brown because she ate too much soy sauce Robert Flannery two year old’s bed time teenager out saturday night seniority authority challenged Bob Jessup but mom I got supervision I see real good Marianne Marks greasy fingerprints on the spectra-star glasses gramma’s gonna be soooo mad Terri Lee Grell visiting Uncle Fred every summer morning slopping pigs RF greeting spring with a terrified scream frog down her back Jean A. Jorgensen tonsillectomy fighting the ether afterwards, ice cream (lost author's name) chocolate strawberry vanilla dreams Marianne Marks again tonight hunger pangs wake her Mary Wittry-Mason EINSTEIN AND DALI Started: Autumn, 1989 Finished: Spring, 1991 Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman chrome orange sunset captured on film unburnt hydrocarbons Bambi Lyn Walker dream picture of a bent watch or watching time-space bending Rose B. Ackerman night light cackle revived enchanted garden Celeste Fannin Aeolian harp tested in a wind tunnel Eric Folsom thoughts are things yikes CF EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman chrome orange sunset captured on film unburnt hydrocarbons Bambi Lyn Walker dream picture of a bent watch or watching time-space bending Rose B. Ackerman Schroder’s cat and the Cheshire now you see’em now you don’t Steven K. Doyle Freud, Shakespeare and Sophocles discussing motherlove KCL suit of dreamers suit of fools card tricks Celeste Fannin EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell ring around the moon pocket full of Tritons all fall down Celeste Fannin strata upon strata of rock and their colors! Mary Wittry-Mason plutonium, uranium in the unearthly glow ancient gods Bambi Lyn Walker levitating over the money tree by Jupiter CF EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell elemental pas de trois hydrongene Marianne Marks haiku inspiration illuminated on the monitor Bambi Lyn Walker cells divide under the microscope blossoming renga Penny Crosby cilia beating in synchronized ballet -- binocular scope Rose B. Ackerman EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell elemental pas de trois hydrongene Marianne Marks haiku inspiration illuminated on the monitor Bambi Lyn Walker cells divide under the microscope blossoming renga Penny Crosby 2500 bytes of apple 2 pies and 13 verses processed every hour Judith J. Owens EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell elemental pas de trois hydrongene Marianne Marks haiku inspiration illuminated on the monitor Bambi Lyn Walker cells divide under the microscope blossoming renga Penny Crosby amoeba chair bending the rules Mary Wittry-Mason EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell elemental pas de trois hydrongene Marianne Marks haiku inspiration illuminated on the monitor Bambi Lyn Walker cells divide under the microscope blossoming renga Penny Crosby Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty Max Ernst’s blind swimming Robert Flannery EINSTEIN AND DALI Einstein and Dali bent my pocketwatch Ken C. Leibman takes two to tango on the dance floor in the alchemical lab Terri Lee Grell elemental pas de trois hydrongene Marianne Marks haiku inspiration illuminated on the monitor Bambi Lyn Walker cells divide under the microscope blossoming renga Penny Crosby computer brat awakening to mandelbrot TLG WHAT IS IS NOT Wording must use one or more words repeart (is. . . is; you. . .you’re; never, never). Each verse must use the former user’s repeated word (if this not; you never told). 15 links. Started: April, 1988 Finished: Autumn, 1991 what is is not what is not is Bob Jessup if this is not yet clear to you you’re simply still far from the simple truth seng tsan BJ you never told me never never land never happened BJ nevermore Lenore rapping at my chamber door rapping at my door Ken C. Leibman rap. . .tap. . .tap Tap dance marching band BJ flowing from the tap flowing in the smoke flowing with the beat KCL Run Dick Run! See Dick’s hair flowing behind BJ everybody knows: "Along came a dickey bird and pecked off her nose!" KCL sounds of the Earth crying rhythms of the Earth, who knows these? who has forgotten? Robert Flannery greening the Earth one sky new one leaf far Marianne Marks One kiss dreaming another kiss daydreaming RF hokkujin’s dream of what still is still to be completed KCL waking by ourselves by the edge of a lake when the lake is still Eric Folsom Lake Michigan waves through the small window of a jet scattered small white capes RF black-capped chickadee with small black eyes watching us EF WHAT IS IS NOT what is is not what is not is Bob Jessup if this is not yet clear to you you’re simply still far from the simple truth seng tsan BJ you never told me never never land never happened BJ nevermore Lenore rapping at my chamber door rapping at my door Ken C. Leibman rap. . .tap. . .tap Tap dance marching band BJ flowing from the tap flowing in the smoke flowing with the beat KCL Run Dick Run! See Dick’s hair flowing behind BJ everybody knows: "Along came a dickey bird and pecked off her nose!" KCL sounds of the Earth crying rhythms of the Earth, who knows these? who has forgotten? Robert Flannery earthtones skytones songs of the Painted Desert KCL Coyote tones up her muscles hawk stretches her wings RF hawking his wares Raleigh man’s wagon house to house Jean A. Jorgensen dusty house clear the corners clear the mind Marianne Marks peace-filled midnight sun as the peace prize wings clear to Dharmasala RF peaceful revelations peaceful revolutions breaking cycles of tyranny Celeste Fannin WHAT IS IS NOT what is is not what is not is Bob Jessup if this is not yet clear to you you’re simply still far from the simple truth seng tsan BJ you never told me never never land never happened BJ nevermore Lenore rapping at my chamber door rapping at my door Ken C. Leibman rap. . .tap. . .tap Tap dance marching band BJ flowing from the tap flowing in the smoke flowing with the beat KCL Run Dick Run! See Dick’s hair flowing behind BJ everybody knows: "Along came a dickey bird and pecked off her nose!" KCL sounds of the Earth crying rhythms of the Earth, who knows these? who has forgotten? Robert Flannery earthtones skytones songs of the Painted Desert KCL tiny the footfalls tiny the morsel larktones in morning Marianne Marks on thin dead branch singing to blue emptiness tiny blue bird RF the blues this morning and last night, too how long will they last? KCL all that ever is is between us all ways at last everland Celeste Fannin All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Jean A. Jorgensen WHAT IS IS NOT what is is not what is not is Bob Jessup if this is not yet clear to you you’re simply still far from the simple truth seng tsan BJ you never told me never never land never happened BJ nevermore Lenore rapping at my chamber door rapping at my door Ken C. Leibman rap. . .tap. . .tap Tap dance marching band BJ flowing from the tap flowing in the smoke flowing with the beat KCL Run Dick Run! See Dick’s hair flowing behind BJ everybody knows: "Along came a dickey bird and pecked off her nose!" KCL sounds of the Earth crying rhythms of the Earth, who knows these? who has forgotten? Robert Flannery earthtones skytones songs of the Painted Desert KCL tiny the footfalls tiny the morsel larktones in morning Marianne Marks on thin dead branch singing to blue emptiness tiny blue bird RF the blues this morning and last night, too how long will they last? KCL all that ever is is between us all ways at last everland Celeste Fannin All there is: breathing in breathing out RF TUNDRA WIND Free renga – 7 links. As thanks to Tundra for starting APA-Renga. Started: Autumn, 1989 Finished: Autumn, 1991 artic flowers touched by Tundra Wind stay up all night Eric Folsom writing links clouds around the poet’s head a nimbus Jane Reichhold incense drifts Kuan Yin and Hotei do-se-do hot tea drinks us Robert Flannery wrapped in water roundness of stones polishes Bambi Lyn Walker trout breath underwater rain falling above EF sunburned skimming the water on new water skis Jean A. Jorgensen TUNDRA WIND artic flowers touched by Tundra Wind stay up all night Eric Folsom sun reaches high noon a stranger in a strange land Jean A. Jorgensen memories stored in our muscles an iron will Jane Reichhold finger to the wind we predict the wild rain poppies all folding Pat Shelley tai chi on the beach one gull watches with out-stretched wing JR one hundred monkeys perched on the cliff remembering Terri Lee Grell one haired finger writes "O! for a Muse of fire" all heads nod Marianne Marks TUNDRA WIND artic flowers touched by Tundra Wind stay up all night Eric Folsom knee deep in blossoms new renga editor brews coffee at midnight Terri Lee Grell picnic basket and a butterfly net just in case Jean A. Jorgensen scent of Jasmine into our field of vision the Hairstreak moth Pat Shelley wings across the moon the library shelf dust from A to Luna Penny Crosby Making its way through World Philosophy the lowly bookworm PS Zen mind no mind, never mind Mary Wittry-Mason JUNK CARS Scenes in a junkyard alternate 3-line and 2-line links 24 links Started: October, 1988 Finished: Autumn, 1991 junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman hot fridge cold dinner rats in tuxedos Judith J. Owens bricks and old lumber crushed wedding gown JAJ the bulldozer in reverse backs away seagulls watch Eric Folsom locked fence keep in. . . or out? JJO JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman hot fridge cold dinner rats in tuxedos Judith J. Owens bricks and old lumber crushed wedding gown JAJ the bulldozer in reverse backs away seagulls watch Eric Folsom another truckload arrives lots of good parts David Rice JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman squeaky-clean used car salesman asleep at the wheel TLG recycling the body parts Pat Shelley a sculpture made of scrap metal JAJ Art’s mother thought he’d be home early Judith J. Owens JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman squeaky-clean used car salesman asleep at the wheel TLG recycling the body parts Pat Shelley a sculpture made of scrap metal JAJ FOR SALE sign between art and her lover the cutting edge TLG JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman hot fridge cold dinner rats in tuxedos Judith J. Owens bricks and old lumber crushed wedding gown Jean A. Jorgensen the bulldozer in reverse backs away seagulls watch Eric Folsom black marbles on the beach tar balls from Tenyo Maru TLG JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby blind teddy bear paws oceans of empty cans marooned Marianne Marks one black tap shoe one white glove TLG long coat in tatters a bent shadow picking up cans Jean A. Jorgensen under the flame Ferrari scuttles a gray rat Rose B. Ackerman hot fridge cold dinner rats in tuxedos Judith J. Owens bricks and old lumber crushed wedding gown Jean A. Jorgensen the bulldozer in reverse backs away seagulls watch Eric Folsom finding an old chair and no seat Celeste Fannin JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby cloud of dust something old settles into earth Bambi Lyn Walker urn of ashes skirted by orange peel flowers Marianne Marks migrating monarch skims license plates settles on blue PC in hopeless puddles toxic rainbows Bambi Lyn Walker Pontyasters, Olsmomums chromium bouquets across the fruited plain Steve K. Doyle my country tis on a wing and a prayer TLG engine gone back seat still dry in the rain David Rice broken teapot still holds that much piss Mary Wittry-Mason JUNK CARS junk cars piled in effigy Terri Lee Grell under Beware of Dog chained puppy shivers Penny Crosby cloud of dust something old settles into earth Bambi Lyn Walker urn of ashes skirted by orange peel flowers Marianne Marks migrating monarch skims license plates settles on blue PC in hopeless puddles toxic rainbows Bambi Lyn Walker Pontyasters, Olsmomums chromium bouquets across the fruited plain Steve K. Doyle my country tis on a wing and a prayer TLG engine gone back seat still dry in the rain David Rice dandelions potted in bedsprings Jean A. Jorgensen



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