Just reading my own blog today, (that's like talking to yourself, I suppose), I noticed that people may not know what the following poem is all about. It is a linked form of poetry from Japan, called either a renga or a renku, depending on how formal you are. There is a wonderful website by William Higgenson http://renku.home.att.net/ where all is explained in lots of articles and some examples. But this renga is from members of an email list I am on, called poneme and run by Jennifer Crawford. We started it recently and it will go 36 stanzas by the end, so we're a little over half way at 19 stanzas. The idea is to make a poem out of five lines, and for the next poet to use the last stanza and make a different poem out of it as a part of five lines. Some work better than others, and some will work best when the whole renga is finished, but it is a delight to participate in as it grows.
The names of the participants, in order of appearance, are: Andrew Burke, Jen Crawford, Louise Waller, Lawrence Upton, Kristin Hannaford, Jennifer Compton, Heather Matthew, Jill Jones and Anie Locke.
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