I am very proud to present to you our latest rengay (No. 16) in the current series.
Savannah Rave
(in order of appearance)
by
Melissa Lemay (ml), David Bogomolny (db), and yours truly (ls)

ml: orchestral serenade
under the moonlight
crickets chirping
db: ~ cauldron swirls over glade ~ wings
rustle ~ cascading rainstick ~
ls: elephants trumpet—
in a stampede of sand clouds
wildebeest drumrolls
ml: thunderous rumbling of
bellowing hippo chorus
db: -- hot gasses flow through
muzzle -- RE~VER~BER~AT~ING
bOOm -- huge snare drum strIKE!
ls: a little goatherd
plays a fula bamboo flute,
to soothe his goats
Melissa Lemay (ml), David Bogomolny (db) and Lesley Scoble (ls), September 2024
CREDITS
Enormous thanks to my two ‘Renegayde’ friends, David and Melissa, for this wonderful series of collaborative Rengay poetry. I am proud to be included in your team. Thank you, David for creating the awesome AI feature photo of the wildebeest!
More Rengay
Please head over to David’s site, The Skeptics Kaddish, where you can find all the rengays written so far. And discover more about the rengay and collaborative poetry.
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.






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