031521b

 

dark days followed

death of their huge scaly hosts 

Cretaceous vamps

learning to suck protorats 

dry bones in their burrows

you are what you eat

soon they're growing widow's peaks

and sharp sharp teeth

091320d

 

Lunegay; a poetic form analogous to a rengay. A rengay consists of a series of haiku-like stanzas interspersed with stanzas consisting of two lines that have a maximum of seven syllables each. A lune differs from a haiku in having lines of 5, 3, and 5 syllables, with the goal of making the stanzas resemble a crescent moon. They typically make reference to moons. A lunegay begins with a lune, and these alternate with stanzas of two lines as for a rengay. The length of the poem is indeterminate, but the middle is marked by two lunes in succession, as for a rengay. The lunegay was invented by me in 2019, though I haven't written many yet. A new one has been submitted to a magazine..

Two examples:

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/10/101319.html

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/02/021920.html

050820b

Grandma stepped
from the time machine
Dad in her arms

here's your kid she told me
he needs changing

future-me
his old time machine
for like-new comix

he invested
in growth stocks
left with my daughter

great grandma's
only surviving photo

I recognize
her smile and locket
i hate myself

022520e

Not a rengay without verse-altering substances


remember koalas?
we burned ther trees
the survivors starved

the dodo ran
but it ran too slow

passenger pigeons
we clubbed and shot
every blessed one

too dumb to spare
the honey bee

whales
the seas used to sing
like a global organ

quiet
under the winking stars
a little too quiet

dinosaurs lasted almost
to the bitter end

pronghorns?
the last American antelopes
starved behind fences

giraffes ended
on assholes' walls

back to bacteria
for this old orb
game over

101019c

Swing and pattern

Inkober 9 and 10--in words

What I learned from my dad--a brief rengay

under the swings
are scattered brown cubes
limonite

vein makes a beeline
across the county

in Utah
limonite cubes ring a hill
thanks Dad

082919d

some planets seem to
collect moons
who needs 65?

it's not like you'll even know
if one should turn up missing

I'm looking at you
Jupiter
learn to share your toys

082419c

A lune rengay, perhaps we should call it a lune-gay


under the full moon
at the dance,
challenged, he bristled

the gatecrashers pushed him hard
a wild punch struck his date's face

shredding the white dress
she transformed
who knew they were real

growling was enough
the boys fled
leaving small puddles

the photographs showed two wolves
shreds of fabric in their fur

tangled in morning
venison
on their human tongues


Definition: consists of six stanzas with the following line lengths in syllables:

5-3-5

7-7

5-3-5

5-3-5

7-7

5-3-5

Each three-line stanza should have two lines that are directly connected to one another, separated by a break from the third line, as in traditional haiku. Should have something to do with the moon, or moons, or satellites in the broadest sense. Modeled on the well-known rengay form.

060319d

crabgrass
gains a foothold
habitat 1

rigorous precautions
taken at the spaceport

Purple spider wort
nods beneath each window
worse: my dog has fleas

052819b

light people
glimmers in the dusk
float ever higher

calls like thistledown
drift to upturned faces

low-pressure release
lights turn to pops
heralding glass rain

120518

FTL
multiplier on the fritz
one swift kick

the fleeting stars burn red
galaxies like grains of sand

dead still
in a sea of nothing
hammer this time?