flub-a-dub
in the purple west
helicopter

(David G. Lanoue)





a bald eagle atop
the sharp left turn sign

(Naia)





a woman knits
flowers
on a soldier's grave

(Lawrence)





her second husband
wears red-framed glasses

(SAT??Æ Ayaka)





apple sack
and a library book
about gravity

(Deborah P Kolodji)





eternal doldrums
on the Sea of Tranquility

(josh wikoff)





in no time
a lonely cricket
calls the tune

(Vasile Moldovan)





Don Marquis' archy
cocks a snook at humans

(Kathy Earsman)





small business
the pub owner strokes
a huge belly

(Origa)





her best rose-covered cup
dulled by dust

(Sandra Simpson)





all night
the humpbacks
speak of love

(josh wikoff)





a water lily opens
in Kakadu

(Anne Elvey)





my hand on the rock
no space
for a shadow

(Sandra Simpson)





da Vinci knows of these things
light shade and objects

(Rhonda Poholke)





by the window
who sits stitching pearls
onto silk?

(Genevieve Osborne)





in poverty's grip
identity folds

(Michael Roper)





cherry blossom drift-
here comes the poet with his
hippopotamus

(Lorin Ford)





listening to Pink Floyd
still on the hit list

(Barbara A Taylor)







children laugh
unafraid of the past
in the summer grass

(Keiji Minato)





a ladybug of leisure
wanders upside-down

(Fleur)





on a city tram
opening to Han Shan's
distances

(Lorin Ford)





cold mountain range
plays hidden music

(Joseph Mueller)





hunting truffles
the sow
cannot help herself

(Ashley Capes)





the streets are empty now
rumble of a tank

(Greg Rochlin)





after the lightning strike
a ti-tree blooms
in halves

(Rhonda Poholke)





a divorced mother
bungee jumps

(Aldia)





tattooed
on the back of her neck
a howling Jesus

(David G. Lanoue)





a cardboard alphabet
tacked to backyard trees

(Joseph Mueller)





our renga booklet-
the wind turns leaf after leaf
and the moon reads it

(Vasile Moldovan)





the players rehearse
on Prospero's isle

(Lorin Ford)





after midnight
it all goes
topsy-turvy

(Genevieve Osborne)





youtube koalas
munch on pixel gum leaves

(David Prater)





cross-species kindness -
a fireman offers
his water bottle

(Anne Elvey)





morning meditation
a crow disrupts my shadow

(Graham Nunn)





garden lilac
unfurling at the tempo
of its fragrance

(Origa)





our postman arrives -
pitter-patter tin drum

 (Michael Roper)

This is the final result of Cordite's experiment in interactive renga, with Keiji Minato acting as renga master. To see how this renga came into being, check out the 1024 comments on Haikunaut Island Renga 1 and Haikunaut Island Renga 2. Haikunauts are go!