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Winged Moon is a project from Yay Words! Poets were invited to submit short form poetry and artwork about faerie folk and/or lanterns to celebrate the summer solstice. Each poet who submitted was guaranteed at least one poem into the collection.
All poems and artwork copyright of their authors.
Cover art by Kris Kondo.
IntroductionWhen putting together a collection, I like to arrange the poems so that they link. The challenge of linking all the poems together may be one of my favorite parts. Whether intentional or not, each poem influences the reading of the next, so I think of a collection as a sequence or even a loose narrative. Apparently so was everyone else for this prompt!
I was delighted by the collaboration among poets in the renray and rengay sequences. In addition, there were poems paired together, and others that worked so closely together it felt that they should go together. When it came time to put the poems together as one cohesive collection, they clustered together naturally.
Now the days will get shorter and daylight will slip away, but inspiration will remain the same.
Aubrie Cox20 June, 2012
1
dusky twilighta full moon begins to fillthe empty lantern
Johnny Baranski
every lantern litin the Japanese gardenjust for tonightthe yukata slipsfrom my shoulder
Christina Nguyen
2
land-lockedthe mermaid maroonedon his forearm
Peter Newton
one by onethe floating lanternsembrace the night
Mark E. Brager
3
a yin yang flickerthrough the holesof the pinprick lanternshe holds his handto her belly
Terri L. French
peace lanternin a world of turmoili wonder whythe gardener has hidden itamong the shrubs
Johnny Baranski
4
paper lanternsdo you know how many diedat Hiroshima
Johnny Baranski
paper lanternwith the white dome’s heatNagasaki
Martin Gottlieb Cohen
6
FlickersA renray Mark E. Brager, Terri French, Lucas Stensland, Kathy Nguyen, and Christina Nguyen
floating lanterns . . .from deep in the rushesa loon’s call
riddles ponderedin the moonlight
a flickerdown in the glen. . . and its trail yellow monarchthe primrose uncurls
7
another whisperawaits an answer
broken bottlesnear a small stone crosswind rising
toppled cairnat the water’s edge
cypress vineleading me hometo the winged moon
9
Arashimaya River Banks
Drifting down river one moonlight August night banks of bending pine—
Here one black bough dips into the calm, cool water: swaying red lanterns
Antoinette Libro
10
in bullfrog stillnessof a summer night pondfireflies circle and winkstarry fay reflectionsin the blink between light and darka star falls
Yousei Hime
11
too late to gather bluebonnetsnext year I’ll weave theminto a wreath ofcalculus and Spanish mosswrap it around a pecan piefloat it down the Neches Rivermy heart, a lantern grief brightwith seeds of his memories
Yousei Hime
12
the way the watershimmersmy belief in mermaids
Peter Newton
unseen yetacross my napefaerie breath
Susan Nelson Myers
13
Into the NightCara Holman & Kirsten Cliff
garden partymoths flitteraround the lantern
fairy dustin her hair
pixie ringdancing longinto the night
koi pondthe children huntfor mermaids
tinkling laughterclusters of coral bells
dark lanternstill the heady scentof wild jasmine
15
eating honeyi dance and flyin the flowers
Maria Santomauro
a bee gathers the faerie deep in the flower
Frances Trosborg
18
MidsummerAubrie Cox
double dog darea white candleburning away my youth so brightly in the dark wood
forest floor floodedwith faerie lightsI lay my head downand forget howold I am…
the shortest nightshadows danceto make amendsas they havefor a hundred years
19
puck whispersand the stagefalls to blackno grove, no danceno sound1
sunlight slipsinto the treeshow old I’ve become… the elves’ songstill ringing in my ears
1 Last two lines taken from Sappho’s fragments
21
mirror, mirrorthe negative spacebecomes her
Mark E. Brager
at his toucha shiver, her skin thinnerthan dawn
Alegria Imperial
22
Faerie’s ParasolA renray Christina Nguyen, Mark E. Brager, Kathy Nguyen, Lucas Stensland, and Terri French
faerie wingsthe first breathof dawn
muffled sounds beneaththe antique comforter
workdaya shift of sundustaround the cat
easing into midsummertrumpeter swan
23
paper lanternsshe pilfers his drink parasol
still waitingfor that last messageeventide
savoring a sliceof ripe moon
chamomile starswhere the Sandman leavesbehind his dreams
Links OutJohnny Baranski - @haikumonk <http://twitter.com/#!/haikumonk>
Karen Chandler - Visioning <http://karenchandler.wordpress.com/>
Kirsten Cliff - Swimming in Lines of Haiku <http://kirstencliffwrites.blogspot.com>
Martin Gottlieb Cohen - @martin1223 <https://twitter.com/#!/martin1223>
Aubrie Cox - Yay Words! <http://yaywords.wordpress.com>
Victoria Durm - The Wonderful World of Victoria Durm <http://victoriadurm.net/>
Terri L. French - The Mulling Muse <http://terrilfrench-themullingmuse.blogspot.com/>
Merrill Gonzales - snowbirdpress <http://snowbirdpress.wordpress.com/>
Mark Harris - markfharrismemes <https://sites.google.com/site/markfharrismemes/>
Yousei Hime - Shiteki Na Usagi <http://tasmith1122.wordpress.com/>
Cara Holman - Prose Posies <http://carahoman.wordpress.com>
Alegria Imperial - jornales <http://jornales.wordpress.com/>
Susan Nelson Myers - The Frugal Poet <http://www.frugalpoet.com/>
Peter Newton - @ThePeterNewton <http://twitter.com/#!/ThePeterNewton>
Christina Nguyen - A wish for the sky... <http://tina.mnnguyen.com/>
Kathy Nguyen - Poetry by Lotus <http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/>
Lucas Stensland - Haiku Cowboy Productions < https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haiku- Cowboy-Productions/208395509201202>
CreditsThe following poems first appeared in the listed publications.
“dusky twilight” by Johnny Baranski Dragonfly: A Quarterly of Haiku (Summer 1986); Fish Pond Moon (sunburst matchbooks, 1986)
“peace lantern” by Johnny Baranski bottle rockets 13.2 (2012)
“Arashiyama River Banks” by Antoinette Libro Brussels Sprouts: Haiku Quarterly (Fall 1981)
IndexBaranski, Johnny - 1,3.4Brager, Mark E. - 2, 6-7, 22-23, 21
Chandler, Karen - 16Cliff, Kirsten - 20Cohen, Martin Gottlieb - 4Cox, Aubrie - 18-19
Durm, Victoria - 14
French, Terri L. - 3, 6-7, 22-23
Gonzales, Merrill - 17
Harris, Mark - 8Hime, Yousei - 10, 11Holman, Cara - 13, 20
Imperial, Alegria - 21
Kondo, Kris - cover, 24, 25
Libro, Antoinette - 9
Myers, Susan Nelson - 12
Newton, Peter - 2, 12Nguyen, Christina - 1, 6-7, 22-23Nguyen, Kathy - 6-7, 22-23
Santomauro, Maria - 15Stensland, Lucas - 6-7, 22-23
Trosborg, Frances - 15
Wappner, Bette Norcross (b’oki) - 5