he huffed and he puffed
and he blew all the leaves down
redder than red
*
green grasses now turned to red
soon packed up in paper bags
*
counting the days
thirty-one days to christmas
will it be white?
Renga is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternate stanzas of 5-7-5 and 7-7 are linked together by multiple poets. It originated as a two-verse poetry exchange that slowly increased in length and was elevated to a literary art during the 12th century. In time, this later led to the haiku form as we know it today. (My style here is more lighthearted than the classical Japanese verse.)
