7 | A Renku by the Poets Thirteen
Quantum Entanglement
hear our words
and forget Ithaca…
the raider’s dream
-Joshua Gage
his sword’s tip
nudges an anemone
-John J. Dunphy
a polyp retracts
into flowery form
hiding harpoons
-Brian LeBansky
saltwater surges
around decaying driftwood
-Alison Jennings
moonlight gleams—
trees at the start of the sands
have gone a burning brown
-Harris Coverley
smoke from a thousand twinkling fires
dotted with cooking pots that bubble, hiss, groan
-@mathewhaiku
morning, blood red
a child lies pale
under early snow
-Lee Garratt
shaking with phantasms
head still filled with the unknown
-Matt Schumacher
newfound desire
topples
careful equilibrium
-Alison Jennings
heart palpitations
enchanted with excitement
-Brian LeBansky
butterflies in my stomach
as she emerges
from the willows
-Amber Winter
wet palms staunch sunbeams
clouds feather – imbibe galaxies
-Carla Stein
flashes on the moon
new tea served to astronauts
superluminal flight
-Wendy Van Camp
horizon—two suns
nuclear summer into winter
-Harris Coverley
white space
in the quantum entanglement
of our awareness
-Irina Moga
opium dreams breed
epicurist infinities
-Carla Stein
wyrd visions of poppy juice
centaur armies rage
through drifts of blossom
-Lee Garratt
wandering through realms of faith
and truth, the midnight hour ends
-Alison Jennings
new phase of matter
time-translation symmetry
forever cycles
-Wendy Van Camp
my marigolds trampled
by a mastodon
-John J. Dunphy
La Belle Dame
dances for him
wearing ferns and moss
-Joshua St. Claire
Adonais, knights wait: fate’s cold
hillsides cryogenic states
-Matthew Schumacher
runes pulled from underneath a stone
looming over
the damp brain of the lake
-Irina Moga
tell of shivering ranks of eunuchs,
skies dark with being
-Lee Garratt
at absolute zero
the rubidium atoms
form a Buddha
-Joshua St. Claire
candle flame snuffs out
awareness unexpectedly returns
-@mathewhaiku
a whistling skull—
thought only the wind
until the tune changed
-Harris Coverley
rattling of chains
from inside the dusty attic
-Amber Winter
meteoroids falling
from the deciduous-eyed
moon’s white lashes
-Matt Schumacher
the region, the soil, the clime
perfumed with smoke and sulfur
-Joshua Gage
in temperate rainforests
orange leaved plants
producing ambergris
-Brian LeBansky
carefully harvested by whales
carrying jewels on their backs
-@mathewhaiku
as they glide through
seagates of the depth
fanning out melodic tones
-Irina Moga
their jubilance understood
by the universe at large
-Wendy Van Camp
petals beckon stars
pollen dusts bees, ants
wasps dance on fallen wombs
-Carla Stein
army’s quest for a new Queen
Venus shines the brightest
-Amber Winter
[This renku was started on 5/1/22 and completed on 8/24/22, via email.]
Editor’s Note: Thank you, poets extraordinaire, for this work of orotund and overflowing poetic fervor!