in response to Sonnet, by Helen Valentina
Emoji notwithstanding, come my words and take the sin that you have spoke in long and winding verse, so much more naught than thing. word in picture framed simple thought inelegant ambiguity Come and take my hand and walk this narrow way that frames ideas in solid beating phrase, and speak you not a single word to me until this path for miles we have trod, until this thirst, these aching thighs have etched their own path through the mind, so flows there not a single thought save for the well deserved rest. speeding ball in flight stinging slap of leather caught spinning back to you
a blank renku [1] by Paul Guernsey Player, © 2018/10/25
[1] blank renku – a form of linked verse, written by one or multiple authors in alternating collaboration. Blank renku differs from renku in that stanzas alternate between haiku form, and blank verse. The shortest blank verse stanza would be a couplet. The longest would fill a Post It note, the original (fictional) medium of blank renku, as invented for The Blank Verse Mystery. Variations are expected.
Blank renku can be played as a game, in the original spirit of renku. It merges poetry from East and West. Writers can choose to write in their stronger form or in their weaker one, and in this way it is similar to the game of THUD.
