A Flower Cultivated Across the Seas (Rengay Collab)

Homer's telling her
What's between the south and north
Love? What a cocktail!

They chat when the moon is lit
and laugh until waking dawn

She cried when they left,
bearing a letter for him
"She won't forget him"

Minutes, hours pass
as their new memories grow.
The flowers blossom!

Their hearts met before bodies
Promises won't be broken

Life sent a message
to the new friends from afar.
Distance means nothing.

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* Rengay: A North American variation on the Japanese linked verse form. It's a 6-link collaborative poem by 2 poets, each writing two haiku and a total of three verses. This is the form, with the 2 poets labeled A and B:

A's Haiku.
B's Haiku-like verse.
A's 2nd Haiku.
B's Haiku.
A's Haiku-like verse.
B's 2nd Haiku.
where A = 1st poet; B = 2nd poet.

If the "traditional" syllable count is used for the haiku, and if the haiku-like verses are written as 7-syllable lines (as are the "traditional" alternate verses of a renku), then the form is:

5-7-5 syllables - A's Haiku.
7-7 syllables - B's Haiku-like verse.
5-7-5 syllables - A's 2nd Haiku.
5-7-5 syllables - B's Haiku.
7-7 syllables - A's Haiku-like verse.
5-7-5 syllables - B's 2nd Haiku.