Spring’s sun melts snow Hawk’s shadow warns too late — Seeds left uneaten. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of you choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the hawk (taka) This is my second attempt at a…
Month: February 2020
dVerse — quadrille 97 — Breathe the Stars
“Essential oils are like little packages of positivity.” – Valerie Ann Worwood, from The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, 25th Anniversary Edition (2016) Build dreampaths that are Blessed, mindful; balancing Hills and holes along the way, A journeyed setting of the stage For living to bloom. Essential oils of geranium, grapefruit, Petitgrain and…
What do you see? #16 — air and sea see saws
Reflections by: Yunus Emre Uzun After the rock rolled away from the cave entrance and Jesus emerged, everyone saw him ascend to the heavens. His believers have faith that one day he will descend from heaven and take the faithful back to heaven with him. What no humans saw was later that night Jesus came…
Sunday afternoon winter poetry
Yesterday morning brought a red-tailed hawk close to the bird feeders. Only when her head swiveled to and fro and when she repositioned herself on the sapling was she brought to life. It seemed she was willing to risk detection at a chance to eat a warm meal. Perhaps she preferred an unsuccessful hunt to…
#SLS — Why Didn’t You Stop Me? by Mitski
Jim Adams is the meticulous host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week I/Me/Them/Us/You/We is our prompt and I feel this should work out for everyone. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit, then please…
#MM Saturday Mix — Rhyme Time — lived to tell
Pulsebell unquelled when she smelled what cave dwelled. She did yell. Lived to tell. The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #121 — the last book on planet earth
The last book on Planet Earth will be the first book, the one to be an idealized representation of what humans could and can be if they could clear their minds of the cloudiness of what is most frail and harmful about our species. When it is found or taken with humans, it can set…
Tao Talk 