Patrick Swayze (and unperturbed cat) from Ghost You died with me when I met my end When midnight struck and tore asunder Grief seeps through worlds to join us again Not just soulmate, lover, and best friend Time slows to still with Fate’s foul blunder You died with me when I met my end Though…
Month: July 2022
Turntable Talk: Cover Me — “Comfortably Numb,” by Roger Waters & Company on the In the Flesh Tour on June 27, 2000 at The Rose Garden Arena in Portland Oregon, featuring Doyle Bramhall II and Snowy White on lead guitars.
Instead of an essay on cover songs that gives a rationale of what kind I like or don’t like and why, I want to take it in another direction. What I want to talk about in today’s essay on cover songs is what I will dub a semi-cover or modified cover of an original, which…
dVerse — Form — The Big Bluff
I stand before a California tree Tree that stands tall in Michigan Michigan is no place for sequoia Sequoia only home is California California seedlings trans planted Planted in Manistee, at the lake Lake Michigan’s temperate bluff Bluff that satisfies the sequoia Earlier in the week, I heard there were sequoia trees growing in Manistee,…
raindrops (tanka)
thick drops of wet plop on the dusty greenhouse glass night storm brings cool air wind chimes as fulfilled promise hopeful times are here
#FF — Tenth Anniversary
PHOTO PROMPT © Bill Reynolds Today is the tenth anniversary … of her leaving. He’s not sure why he’s programmed his phone to beep for it every year. It’s not as if he doesn’t have a reminder each time he steps outside or looks from his northern window. Mary was in the barn, brushing Jinn….
dVerse — Poetics — This is Nuts
Falling off the wagon sometime in mid-late June While the house watchdogs slept, I struck out for Forbidden late night snack under sugar plum moon I skulked noir urban jumble, fumbling for my cash Thirsty ear piqued for tunes at speak easy dance, By moon’s shine, I sought cursed, dastardly mash Alas, that whisky barrel…
The Monday Peeve on Tuesday: Amazon email: “____ever wonder if your reviews are getting noticed?”
It’s been awhile since I participated in Paula’s weekly feature, but here goes. I think it was about a year or so ago when I read a book by Tama Janowitz and wrote a review on it and sent it in to amazon. For the *first*time*ever* they sent the review back, with a detailed list…
Tao Talk 