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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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