Scribing Lines
The Bath Spa Railway Station Renku
Hosted by With Words (Alan Summers & Karen Hoy),
with Marshall Hryciuk & Karen Sohne, Canada, and friends.
Hosted by With Words (Alan Summers & Karen Hoy),
with Marshall Hryciuk & Karen Sohne, Canada, and friends.
scribing lines across the fields Easter journey | Sue Shand | |
hopping on one foot grandchild counts ducklings | Karen Sohne | |
the empty home a kettle whistles as a train rumbles past | Zoe Blackmore | |
while bonfire smoke drifts through a bare tree | Andrew Shimield | |
clouds I have even lost the moon | Mimi Thebo | |
as I admire Monet's Haystacks | Alan Summers | |
lemonade glasses framed by the half-done jigsaw | Karen Hoy | |
where the leaves meet blue leaves of sky | Liz Brownlee | |
ice cream how long out of the freezer | Karen Hoy | |
longing for love's lick dirty dishes pile high | Tracey Kelly | |
the damp spot on my expensive shirt a night's tears | Alan Summers | |
the world is suddenly interested in Portuguese Water Spaniels | Mimi Thebo | |
off Somalia the Captain's alive and three pirates dead | Yu Yan Chen | |
crows pierce the crystaline horizon | Tracey Kelly | |
inside the cat curls snug on the warmest chair | Zoe Blackmore | |
half moon my wife's unvarnished toenails | Alan Summers | |
the tree rattles bones the wind shakes | Liz Brownlee | |
today I smelled the earth | Mimi Thebo | |
abundant the elderflowers bow low | Sue Shand | |
light on the froth below the weir clouds float | Liz Brownlee | |
as I drink through the harp in my Guinness | Sue Shand | |
piggyback he sees his dad's view | Alan Summers | |
two lines summer Alan and Karen | Tracey Kelly | |
sunbathing on the roof the radio DJ tells us to roll over | Karen Sohne | |
rockets explode in showers of golden rain | Sue Shand | |
Orion's Belt I sneak another notch in mine | Alan Summers | |
this diamond day we set the date | Sue Shand | |
my new babe’s gaze joins my heat to her's | Liz Brownlee | |
the length of the valley the bullstag's trumpeting | Andrew Shimield | |
Jupiter's moons through someone else’s telescope | Karen Hoy | |
roasted chestnuts start to appear on London street corners | Alan Summers | |
snakes in the beard of the sun god | Karen Sohne | |
light on the river shimmering on the green tour boat | Marshall Hryciuk | |
tiny butterfly over the new lawn | Karen Sohne | |
in a swirl of blossom the dustmen fill their cart | Andrew Shimield | |
letting go of the balloon with a gentle wave | Yu Yan Chen |
Alan Summers was roving renga poet-in-residence during Japan-UK 150.
Marshall Hryciuk ((President of the Haiku Society of Canada 1990 – 1997)) was sabaki for this event.
Karen Sohne (Toronto, Canada) acted as the scribe.
The event stayed at Dashi Sushi Bar for a number of hours, before moving onto a nearby park in Bath. Early evening we moved to the famous Raven pub in Bath for refreshments and to perform the completed renga.
Karen Hoy assisted me as co-host at the event, so we could look after the needs of all the participants while guest sabaki and scribe Marshall Hryciuk and Karen Sohne from Toronto, Canada, could concentrate totally on the renga aka renku.
With Words (myself and Karen) insist that participants in a renga enjoy themselves in a relaxed atmosphere. As a kasen renga can take six hours, there was plenty of opportunity for people to visit museums and galleries, do a little shopping, and generally come back in their own time.
all photographs©Alan Summers
Scribing Lines Renku
publishing credit:
Notes from the Gean vol 2 issue 3 (December 2010)
http://www.notesfromthegean.com/archives/2010-12-december/rengarenku12_10scribinglines.html*Also please still feel free to drop a few short poems about trains into the comments box.
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