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       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


Nika 

NA
Nasira Alma

PC
Penny Crosby 

PGC 
Pamela Connor

PJS
P.J. Sharpe 

PS
Pat Shelley


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 However, links that clearly neglect the hokku poet's guidelines will not be published.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 link
s
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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