Welcome to Sherry Grant's
HSA Rengay Workshop
5-5:50pm, Sunday 13 June 2021 EDT
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Below are rengay written during this workshop.
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Many thanks to the participants that gave permission to share their rengay here.
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Rengay 1
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Reflections
by Maxianne Berger (Outremont, Quebec, Canada) and Karen Harvey, (Pwllheli, Wales, UK)
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empty buckets
at the end of the wharf
chatty fishermen
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we build castles made of sand
washed away by the next tide
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round-trip
on the island ferry --
honeymoon cruise
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yet another
swing around the sun ...
golden wedding
reflections of moon and stars
on our ebbing memories
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all is well
at the end of the day
hot chocolate
Rengay 2
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Fading Away
by Bryan Rickert (br)
Carolyn Bell (cb)
Sidney Bending (sb)​
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new graffiti
over the old
light snow - br
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he shouldn’t have
touched my lace - cb
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daisy chain
under her veil
a pale face - sb
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gently together
our fingertips - br
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her shawl falls
worn tattoos
fleeing secrets - cb
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a letter's signature
illegible - sb
Rengay 3
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Fruit Salad
by Jacob Salzer (Vancouver, WA USA)
Wilda Morris (Bolingbrook, IL USA)
Alex Fyffe (Houston, TX USA)
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Sunday yogurt
a mountain
of strawberries - js
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blueberry salad
the stems - wm
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plucking
grape after grape
for my child - af
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biting into a ripe cherry
my chocolate dream - js
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eating peaches
sweet from the tree
pesticides - wm
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watermelon seeds
the salt in my spit - af
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Rengay 5
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Yet to Meet
by Pippa Phillips
John Stevenson
and Shirley Metzler
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fingerprints
under my fingerprints
secondhand book - pp
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what we know
about Ötzi - js
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stones and amber
reveal more culture
mountain man - sm
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lipstick on the bathroom stall
"I was here" - pp
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the difference between
swipe left and
swipe right - js
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just a friend
I have yet to meet - sm
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Rengay 6
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Summer Fun
by Susan K. Beard
M.R. Defibaugh
Susan Lee Roberts
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ups and downs
the amusement park
merry go round - mrd
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children screens
happy days - skb
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keeping cool
freshly cut
watermelon - mrd
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flute songs float
over giant lotus - slr
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thin-fat-thin-fat
mirrors distort
laughter - slr
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grandpa
is not amused - skb
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Rengay 7
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Rainbow Bridge
by Christine L. Villa (USA)
Claire Vogel Camargo (USA)
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snow flurries
minute after minute
without her whimper
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ashes in the urn
a feather floats by
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wet pavement
on my evening walk
licking my wounds
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barks
from the rainbow bridge
new friends
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an evening star
keeps me company
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constellations
we are not really alone
but the loneliness
Rengay 4
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Secret Delights
by Adjei Agyei-Baah (aa-b)
Deda Kavanagh (dk)
Jill Lange (jl)
Mark Farrar (mf)
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doting mama
hiding meat
under my fufu - aa-b
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she secrets quarters
for ice cream sundaes - dk
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a new bag
cracking pistachios
all of them - jl
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Guylian seashells
melting in the mouth
sticky fingers - mf
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nudging the shoreline
summer moon - aa-b
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in dim light
crabs socialize...
wave music - dk
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