Avocadette, photo taken 022221 Once she was an almost cast-off pit to be tossed into the compost heap.Redeemed on a whim, toothpicked and watered, she sprouted thanks.Inspiring beyond all weathered strife, spider mites, and indoor gloom, she goes on, greening and growing,reaching out for Spring. I have a lot of indoor plants. Most of…
Month: February 2021
2021 MOVIE DRAFT- ROUND 4 PICK 8- MSJADELI- SELECTS- BEING THERE — slicethelife
Round 4 Pick 8 February 22 Lisa “Being There” (1979) Genre: comedy Director: Hal Ashby Writer: Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones (book adaptation) Settings: Washington, D.C. and the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, N.C. Awards: 14 wins and 15 nominations Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Ruth Attaway, Richard Dysart, Henry Dawkins, […]…
The Sunday Muse 148 — Distracted
Light slides foreverdown your silky thigh, launchpadfor erotic flight.Warm milk calls pussy awayas angled skin joins in play. This may be my first erotic tanka! Great photo to write to for a cold February afternoon. Shay is today’s host of The Sunday Muse.
Poem — Morning Revelation
It starts small, like the tinkle of the cat’s collar. It trembles as the flipped blinds show a row of light. It rises with the stack of iced snow on the bird bath. It trickles with water falling from the aquarium filter. It gurgles with this morning’s coffee pot promise. It flits with house finches…
Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard and dVerse OLN
Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:•Still Cold (yokan)/New…
#FF — Capsula Mundi
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Under normal circumstances, at life’s end funeral and burial arrangements would have already been finalized and notarized. These were not normal circumstances. I was only forty years old. My sons learned that the dental hygienist was an anti-masker in her off hours and had infected dozens during their routine cleanings….
dVerse — Poetics — Winter Rainbow
Winter Rainbow What do you call the color of sunlight on snow?A whiter white with flecks of sparkling prisms?Bright silver with contrasting greys of depth?Where corkscrewed plow has churned, itlooks like chopped gunmetal-colored cement. Fast-moving rust jerks, robotic in her searchfor milquetoast bits of kernels in mostly emptysunflower shells. Reds hit and run above herin…
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