Jim Adams is the gracious host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have Listen/Hear/Talk/Speak and I hope we will all be able to find a song that uses one of these prompt words and I want everyone to try and have fun while you are doing this. Here are the “rules”: •…
Month: February 2020
Doodads on Leap Year
Just a few shots from out back on my walk today, plus both kitties.
#Haikai Challenge #128 (2/29/20): east wind (kochi)
Chicago’s east wind Gains lake’s chilled momentum – MI feathers ruffle. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the East wind (Kochi).
#MM Saturday Mix — Ride ’em, Cowgirl
As the horse had a limp to his gait Made me fall as I reached for the gate As the horse from you leased Pay med bills at the least Or to court for small claims; test your fate. I went with a limerick, which has, per shadowpoetry.com, a set rhyme scheme of :…
Renaissance Man by Midnight Oil
Max from Powerpop.blog and Dave from soundday.wordpress.com have inspired me to pull out an album I haven’t listened to in quite awhile. Australian band Midnight Oil’s two better-known albums, “Diesel and Dust” and “Blue Sky Mining”, have a companion in my collection that also kicks butt: “Earth and Sun and Moon.” Earth and Sun and…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #124 — two paths
These lines of Mueller’s poem jumped out at me: I was too young to notice how fear persists, and how the anger that causes fear persists, that its trajectory can’t be changed or broken, only interrupted. Does anger cause fear? Is fear immutable? Is anger? Are trajectories at best interrupted? What if fear is the…
Tao Talk 