When cats are alert,light and shadow flirt,listenfor kingfisher blurts,echoes on ponds skirt.Glistenedsteel grey plumes assertself-crowned king of turf —frisson! Donna Matthews at DJ Ranch has asked for a Lai form poem.
Month: June 2021
TSM 164 — I am the one…
I am the one who forms the vesselsfrom cosmoplasm’s clayalthough ten thousand theories willswirl forever as to how all comes about. Despite your impulse to thank or blameme, the one who forms the vessels,know the way of things are as they arewhether or not you choose to pray. From each atom of your grieving tearsto…
Doodads — what’s in bloom 061021
We finally got a good rain yesterday and it has made the plants happy.
cool smoothie hot day
Another day working towards 90. The afternoon showers yesterday took some of the humidity out of the air but not enough. Trying to think of something for lunch, I remembered the quart of fresh strawberries I bought at my favorite farm market yesterdy and instantly thought smoothie. If you follow my recipe, your tastebuds will…
Larix decidua ‘Pendula’ / Weeping European larch and dVerse OLN
Rising from the soil as Kun rises from water a green furred dragon. Brown scales gleam when she rests, as heaven’s grace flows to and fro. Lillian is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. One of my old co-workers in the juvenile probation officer job ended up leaving and putting his teaching degree to…
#FF — Step Right Up
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson “Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, OH. Opened in 1870, it’s considered the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States.” Food there is expensive, so many families get their collective hands stamped to be able to re-enter then eat coolered…
Haikai Challenge 194: clear [spring-] water (shimizu)
First attempt at a tanka haiga. 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) that alludes to clear [spring-] water (shimizu).
Tao Talk 