PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin These days she was feeling the heat. Her old boss kept claiming her ideas until he was promoted to division chief. The new boss, twenty years her junior, learned all he could from her then downsized her. A trickle of unemployment benefits were left and the headhunters could only offer…
Month: September 2020
dVerse — Poetics — The Vatic Voice
The feeling I get when I become a transmitter for the vatic voice is the same feeling I get when listening to some music. Whether it comes out of my mouth or fingertips or comes in through my ears, it seems to infuse the area from the base of my throat to my chest cavity…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #52 – September 29, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Today is the 52nd installment of the feature. If Covid-19 hadn’t interrupted it the one-year anniversary would have been on 9/3 instead of the end of the month. It doesn’t feel like over a year has gone by since starting Movies, Movies, Movies! Maybe because I enjoy…
dVerse — haibun — day schemes, moon dreams
As Autumn weather cools things down in the Northern hemisphere, woodpeckers get ravenous and attack the silent suet cakes with increased vigor. Unfortunately, their enthusiasm has been more keen than usual this year as they look for tasty snacks they imagine are hiding in the wood siding of the house. They may be doing…
dVerse — Protest — pearl dust
Fine precious pearl, a gift divineyou’ve crushed like dirt beneath your boot;Stole innocence, oft’ hidden crime on precious pearl, a gift divine. You’re fouler than leaked toxic slime,forgot, remembered in the booksby precious pearl, a gift divine,now dust like dirt ‘neath heaven’s boot. Then comes a whirling in the airthat gathers sparkles from the dirt.Sweet…
#FF — Harvest
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson WARNING: may not be suitable for squeamish readers Rats gnawing. Stabbing pain. Falling forever. Maniacal laughter. Trevor woke with a splash, teeth chattering enough to chip his caps, in a tub he didn’t recognize. The water was ice cold – and pink. Head fuzzy, he cast about to orient. White…
dVerse — Ekphrastic — Catrin Welz-Stein — Rose
Rose —fragrant, ruffled,posing, light-catching, captivating,blooming, immortal, unobtainable, hungry,luring, piercing, draining,cursed, regretful,phantasm. I chose to write a diamante form poem. Thank you, Lillian, for this prompt and thank you to Catrin for her mesmerizing artwork. Please click on Catrin’s name below to see more of her work. Lillian is today’s host of dVerse. Lillian…
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