For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Japanese type of poem known as renga, it is usually done by more than one person in collaboration, and alternates stanzas of 5-7-5 with 7-7's. Each stanza is written by a different person (or by alternating people, in a group), and should be connected to the stanza before and after it, but not the other stanzas. Also, each stanza is supposed to introduce a twist from the previous stanza....
Here is my first attempt at a renga, in the solo form variation (that is, I wrote all of it).
sweltering sunlight
oppressive humidity
withering drought plants
coolness hidden underground
life is peeking through the blinds
forgotten neighbor
watching through binoculars
reading his books
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