OctPoWriMo2019 Day 21 — small sail, big keel

Now you see it’s where jaws clench pressure builds walking with purpose down a corridor of doors opening each one and finding brick wall, known fail, or detour unhappy adventure, known outcome isn’t there another hall I can try, or is this it? Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock when you were born in a hallway and it’s all you…

Coloring Club Plus — 10/21/19

Today’s Celtic letter “T” is dedicated to Thom Yorke. I wish I would have thought of him yesterday when I colored letter “Y”. Thomas Edward Yorke (born October 7, 1968) is an English musician and the singer and main songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards. Along…

dVerse — quadrille — quiver — Veil of Justice

Veil of Justice He, before the court; I, watching in back row; Armed assemblage all. He looked small against Polished oak bench Gavel echoes, justice commence, proclaimed by ordained tin god. Away he shuffled without a sentence. I said I wanted justice But my quivering lip lied. De (aka Whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse. …

#Haikai Challenge #109: scarecrow

i. Butterfly stuffings Sail in cold October gusts – Murder of crows wait. Wood bones, tattered skin dances Hat rolls between stalks — crows feast.   ii. Long past dark stands guard Featureless-faced effigy Crows sleep, hunter moon Sun’s melted frost, eyeless tears Crows build shelter from his guts   Frank J. Tassone is the…

#MM Saturday Mix – Unique Personality — Mother Nature can be a….

image link Gordon Lightfoot sang about the “gales of November,” which haven’t quite reached here yet, but cold October rains did their best to wash the rainbow leaves off of the trees. A thick mat greeted my running shoes as I walked along the trail that ran between the dunes today. I’d almost made it…

OctPoWriMo2019 — mountains — mountain flame

  I’ve only been to the ocean a few times and to the mountains a handful of times in the geographical sense. I have been to the mountains many times in my mind while reading about them in Chinese poetry while studying Chinese philosophy from the time of philosophical taoism and the introduction of Confucius…