Selected Rengay

Rengay is collaborative poetry written by two or three poets alternating three-line and two-line haiku or haiku-like verses in a six-verse thematic form. In 1992, Garry Gay of California invented rengay, naming the form by combining his last name with "renga," the centuries-old Japanese tradition of linked verse.

“Professed”

Richard L. Matta / Deborah Burke Henderson

green living

back for a fourth           

refill cup

losing our way

carbon footprints          

tree clearing                 

the one evergreen        

phone tower

electric car…

a fast-food bag flying

out the window

compost pile

shredded rengay drafts   

recycling

the intermixing              

in the garbage truck

 [Published in Frameless Sky, a video poetry journal online. The theme was "caring for our planet."]