Dawn Jazz Landlord of Clocks tick-tocks through my dreams, raining salt on an untamed parade of roses that claw and scrabble towards respite moon. Oh, Lord! I grow weary of the climb; my midnight skin bleeds. Oh, their thorns! yet their faces carry me on, glowing red each dawn. This poem is dedicated both to…
Month: January 2022
Movies, Movies, Movies! Best Movies Recap 2020 – 2021
Hello Everybody! This week’s installment will be a list of my favorite movies seen during 2021 but were made in 2020 or 2021. They are not in any particular order of liking. All are worth seeing. I have included a link to the trailers for each and also a short blurb on the plot. Next…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Celebrate 2021
“Snow Effect, The Street in Argentuil,” (1875) by Claude Monet Since becoming single again in 2017, retiring from my fast-paced government job in 2018, and the onslaught of the pandemic starting in 2019, the holidays and their hoopla have been shifting into a steadily lowering gear. Where before there were multiple family and social gatherings,…
Reading in 2021
I never read as many books as I would like to, but I’m always happy to have read the ones I have. At this point in my reading life, if a book’s message doesn’t grab me within a certain number of pages it is set aside. There were quite a few of those this…
Doodads — Candy — worst? best?
Aside from Halloween and Easter, Christmas is the season with a lot of candy lying about. Last night, for some reason I was thinking about candy I like and candy I don’t like. Starting with candy that I find to be inedible, two come to mind: orange circus peanuts and Milky Way bars. Worst Orange…
#TSM 192 — Sojourners
In before times all was a dreaming sleep. Awake, the days came; the forming colors flew from atomic cosmoplasmic brew; first, slithering like a great blue snake, came river, calling down –then laying itself on– brown dust. Oh seeds dance! Babies, lush, green, spring up trying to return to heavenly slumber; then fall — to…
Tao Talk 