Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to come and post verses of poetry to "Eternal Renga" So, come as a group or individual and post your verses anytime. This is an ongoing collaborative effort that could go on for hundreds of verses. A truly Neopoet group effort. Let's co-operate to create a truly Neopoet poem.
Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s):
Objectives: To have everyone at Neopoet collaborating a Renga poem.
Level of expertise: Open to all.
Subject matter: "Each person write a verse, alternately senryu or haiku 5-7-5 syllables then a couplet of 7-7 syllables"
I can only say that the rules can not be strictly applied when writing in English. Japanese has such a completely different sound structure, grammar and even thematic considerations considered appropriate for poetry. So we have simplified it.
Alternate 3 line verses of
5-7-5 syllables like a haiku or senryu
and 2 line verses of
7--7 syllables.
Syllable Counter: http://www.poetrysoup.com/haiku_syllable_counter/
We just ask you read the preceding verses to try to maintain some thematic coherency.
As such feel free to introduce modern, western themes, but read what has been written before and make it relevant, please.
Barbara
Love this another Renga, hope this piece is good enough to start you off on a journey into feelings, I feel that there will be a few warm words creeping in on this one, lol
Take care young Barbara enjoy each moment, Yours Ian.T
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Hi Barbara
Here's my contribution.
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Alid
Thank Ian and Alid
These verses are beautiful. Thanks for getting things started. I'll be enrolling ppl up to Sunday then the work shop will be underway.
Thank Ian and Alid
These verses are beautiful. Thanks for getting things started. I'll be enrolling ppl up to Sunday then the work shop will be underway.
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
Hi Barbara
If you enroll me in this workshop, I wish to add as under
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Sure
You're in
Barbara
An addition to the stream of thought:-
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Yours as always Ian.T
Ian. T
Thanks nice addition
SingIt
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With the good isn't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you is where you live.
Barbara I have added some more
SingIt
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With the good isn't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you is where you live.
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
*
Raj
Lovely addition
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With the good isn't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you are where you live.
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Barbara
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With the good isn't easy.
The syllables' count of the 3rd line in this stanza is not 5. Can someone help rectify?
Alid
Alid
Thank I sure missed that.
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With good ain't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you are where you live.
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Hey Stan
Welcome to the workshop. We're waiting for your addition. The workshop is well underway. it'll end on July 27/14. The beautiful verses of passion already written is flowing good.
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be self (Made a slight edit)
Coping enduring the bad
With good ain't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Know you are where you reside. (Made a slight edit)
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Hi everybody
Tomorrow is the last day to add more additions then I'll be closing.
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be self (Made a slight edit)
Coping enduring the bad
With good ain't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Know you are where you reside. (Made a slight edit)
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Then there is true love
That grows like summer wildflowers
As free as the wind
I add
raise your voice to the heavens
let your spirit soar up high
Alid
Alid
Beautiful fit.
Barbara
Maybe I can put the finishing touches to this one as I started it off a few words ago:-
Let me therefore stay
Within your feelings to roam
In your heart is home
As we can live forever
Because we believe in us..
A good workshop of this type of writing I look forward to the next part as we have driven passion forward to its limits lol,
Yours Ian.T
Ian
Yes this works
Work of art
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With good ain't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you are where you live.
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Then there is true love
That grows like summer wildflowers
As free as the windM
raise your voice to the heavens
let your spirit soar up high
Let me therefore stay
Within your feelings to roam
In your heart is home
As we can live forever
Because we believe in us..
Barbara
This reads well and holds many facets of the passion, now we must chose another feeling to play with in our search for verse.
Thank you young lady for overseeing this Renga, I look forward to the next part of our journey,
Yours Ian.T
Ian.
Enjoyed the journey with you guys. It's always pleasure meeting at the renga workshops. If ever you have an idea you'd like to renga. Simply let me know and I'll open renga workshop to accommodate it.
Thanks for another fine renga.
This is renga 8 "a song of passion" I'm ending to post to the stream tonight.
Renga 8 "A Song Of Passion"
We must learn to sing
Teach us of your ways of love
Show me the rapture
See how the passion rises
Shield me not from true loving
Let us dance with joy
as we celebrate this life
painted with laughter
Embrace innocence again
Release the heart from malice
Wide eyed innocence
Blissful days of childishness
Boys run after girls
Embrace the cheerful laughter
Remember days of your youth
In each beat of heart
listen to the melody
in high and low notes
Write a song, lend it a tune
sing along the swings of life
Love in innocence
Unconditional love blooms
A truth in all ways.
Learn of others how to feel
Feel love with your inner soul.
Fighting to be you
Coping enduring the bad
With good ain't easy.
Some don't accept uniqueness
Just know you are where you live.
Sing with heart and soul
just because you want to sing
alone or in choir
Feel the song not just listen
soak in the experience
Then there is true love
That grows like summer wildflowers
As free as the windM
raise your voice to the heavens
let your spirit soar up high
Let me therefore stay
Within your feelings to roam
In your heart is home
As we can live forever
Because we believe in us..
Co Writers
Ian. T
alizarin
Raj
Barbara Writes
Barbara
We could do a series on feelings, now that passion is near finished, time to cool down to the real meaning of love, lol,
Then its co runner hate which is on the other side of the fence but one at a time will do.
Go well young lady and I hope this finds you well, and happy, Yours Ian
Okay Ian.
Great idea. We can do that. What do you suggest the title of this renga be.
how about
"Song of Malice" or "Hatred's Legacy"
Alid
Yes
Either one of those will work. I'll start the syllabus churning in my head and prepare for renga 9
Barbara just a thought
My mind held vice like
Kept me a captive for years
Now I am so free
I was feared to even leave
Why could I not see my life
A start on a Renga about those woman that are held in a bad place, this Renga may get through to help or just to point out some of the feelings.
I can't talk from my experiences as I is not of that gender lol
You have lovely day and keep writing,
Yours Ian.T xx
PS:- needs a title
Ian.
Sound good. I post the new workshop this weekend