Renku - Stationary Fireworks
Renku is a form of collaborative Japanese poetry, and it eventually gave birth to the haiku form. This poem is a series of haikus posted by members of my family on our GroupMe conversation, inspired by a picture my dad posted of our backyard in fall using the words “stationary fireworks” to describe it. The phrase itself sounds poetic, and once we noticed it had 7 syllables (the length of the middle line of a haiku), the rest was inevitable.
October colors bring
Stationary fireworks
My heart and eyes sing.
Midwest autumn is
stationary fireworks.
Celebrating what?
Slowly exploding
Stationary fireworks
Ignite the water.
Colors bang loudly!
Stationary fireworks
Only I can hear.
Forest sprites light off
Stationary fireworks.
One final hurrah.
4th of November.
Stationary fireworks.
Liberty then death.
Fall freely feels fun!
Stationary fireworks
Make my spirit run.
Crisp, frozen colors -
Stationary fireworks.
Who arranged it all?
What is this for, these
Stationary fireworks?
Where’s the barbecue?
Alone, I'm entranced.
Stationary fireworks
Set my heart ablaze.
I must away now.
Stationary fireworks -
Stay to play again?
A cavalcade of
Stationary fireworks -
A bulwark of joy.
What does one eat with
Stationary fireworks?
Turkey barbecue.
Quiet explosions.
Stationary Fireworks.
A symphony observed.
Whenever you shoot
Stationary fireworks,
Keep a pond nearby.
Vacuuming light from
stationary fireworks
with my lawnmower.
Beauty in the sky.
Stationary fireworks -
Blurred reality
God put in motion
Stationary fireworks
For a day like this.
I watch the forest -
Stationary fireworks.
And so Fall begins!
Backyard magic glows.
Stationary fireworks -
What a Godly gift
Imagining home,
Stationary fireworks
Send warm winds my way.
Fireflies' glow ends.
Stationary fireworks -
A new light begins.
Delight is fleeting.
Stationary fireworks
Last a bit longer.
Country living perks:
Stationary fireworks -
One of Nature's quirks.
