Charley and I take on The End of Times and Quo Vadis of the soul in this Renga full of vigorous language and vibrant imagery! Make sure your seat belt is fastened!
qbit has taken up this crazy challenge! I will update our ongoing collaboration through 10 couplets. Stop by and see what insanity he & I cook up! If you are interested in joining in, stop by the original post for On the Road of Ashes and let me know! This is a part of the September Challenge of Casting Bricks; join us! (plagiarized from Jilly’s blog almost verbatim)
I was on the way, on the way
and suddenly, precipitously, I wasn’t
Tourmaline voices cracked like stones in a fire
Broke my path wide into rust or grey choices
To labor as herdsman over sheep seeking knowledge
or waste my life recumbent on a hammock
Such are the sheep of Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Cry out agonies in languages better gauged
to bear pain than in lingua hominibus
Vulgate promises
That will not redeem
Poets…
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qbit 
Seat belt might not be enough; air bags and an ‘oh, crap!’ handle wouldn’t hurt 😉
This is astoundingly great collaboration! The allusions are, for me, the best part.
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The best collaboration I’ve ever read in a long time and you 3 or 2 did a great job and your creative artistic minds infuse together for a promising result. 🙂
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Thanks so much!!
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Your very welcome my friend. I was blown away the whole read. 🙂
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