Be a Bird Be a bird,hued or drab,warbling or silent,wafting or waddling,building or nesting,migrating or staying put,preening or molting,hunting or pecking,diving or swimming,lightbound or darkbound,predator or prey,hopping or dancingearth, sky, sea;choosing whereverfree be. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word bird.
WMM 2026 Day 9 — Feist
FeistL’auteure-compositrice-interprète Feist ©Getty – David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns per wikipedia:Leslie Feist, (b.2/13/76) is known mononymously as Feist; she’s a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. Early YearsLeslie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both…
WMM 2026 Day 8 — Basia Bulat
Basia Bulat I wanted to make a bit of a landscape for this timeI was in. I wanted to celebrate what I have.–Basia Bulat, regarding her album, “Basia’s Palace,” in an interview at CKUA per wikipedia:Barbara Josephine Bulat, known professionally as Basia Bulat, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp….
#SLS — Great Opener — “The Only Thing” by Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band Walk Around The Moon (2023) album cover Hello Everybody! This week’s prompt is extremely challenging in that there an almost infinite number of songs with great openers. Openings so memorable that often it only takes a few notes to recognize them. I agonized for a few moments before deciding on a cut…
The Oracle Speaks — Peace Bloom
Peace Bloom Fertile dawn’s a soft squirrel,moon-wandered poetry over lake. Quiet is how peace blooms between,through which wild things tendril,root in garden bright sanctuary. Follow winter as you must;Spring green makes never blossom,sacred, happy, full soon. Bonus poem:blue & lonelyfrosty feelleave me The Oracle speaks through magnet poetry.
WMM 2026 Day 7 — Yoko Sen
Yoko Sen Some of my friends say to me, “Yoko, you’re a musician. Just create soothing music and license it to hospitals. You don’t need to do all this research!” But it’s very important to me that my work — the sound I create — is evidence-based. I want to be at the intersection of…
dVerse MTB/Forms — Blue Forensics
VanGogh’s “Blue Wheatfield with Cypress” Blue ForensicsWhat acts cast this pall upon the bloody world?Weather sprite tricks or via faux-king twit I heard.Normal season’s passing or terminal affliction?A healthy ecosystemic or sick viral acquisition?Which infusive spilled fluid is chosen, preferable?Meltstreams for crops or gunsiphons unutterable?Bright skyball trajectoring sun or nuclear missile?Task: plant seed cellpacks or…
Tao Talk 