Active Calming Alarm and anxiety’s fingers, like those of ravening zombies, reach through my consciousness, determined to steal light from day. I push to snap their menacing pathways closed to keep them away. Their faces press up against the transparent barrier as they pound without tiring. De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host for…
Month: April 2020
A2Z 2020 — essential oils — E — eucalyptus
The eucalyptus is a holy tree for Australian Aboriginals. For them it represents the division of underworld, Earth and heaven. At a spiritual level the eucalyptus has a purifying effect. Negative energy disappears in the place where you burn a eucalyptus leaf. — from The Joy of Plants The essential oil today starting with letter…
#Haikai Challenge #133: twittering (saezuri)
Morning’s pink-gold sun Rises behind the pine row Mist shrouds dewed, still grass Last year’s garden twitters as Birds peck seeds in the litter 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…
#MM — Saturday Mix — covid-19 quatrain
The world’s walking on a wire Life juggling exploding balls Each hoping nobody falls Yet some will soon sing with the choir. Beneath us all there’s a fire Be it hell or hell on earth That has been played with since birth Soaring death rate shows it’s dire. Shall we get out of this mire?…
#SLS — Copperhead Road by Steve Earle
Jim Adams is the focused host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have Birthday/Cake/Gift/Party/Surprise and I think that everyone should be able to find a song that uses one of these prompt words. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme…
Pictures and Poetry challenge 3 — Unholy
A few stars glimmered through the morn, And down the thorn the dews were streaming. –from The Dead Kings I’d give anything to see the greens again, Where calves nudge their mother’s teats And sleepy swans rest on marsh ledges. If only star glimmers could warp today to The place before our husbands left to…
Doodads 4/4/20
I’ll be playing an online virtual board game with my kids today so will be “gone.” I did want to share one of the things I did yesterday. My older son’s girlfriend gave me a gift for Christmas of herb growing kit. I opened it yesterday and was instructed to soak the seeds for 24…
Tao Talk 