Tanka Tuesday 314 — Shadorma series: earth turns

Winter’s End Thin fish soup, winter’s smile stretches grey and tight; we wait for colors to tiptoe in, warm again, springtime bright. Sunflower Giants sleep, yet seeds in soil’s shade; they dream tall, wait to wake, germinate, as end begins rise, ever stalkward. In Season Spring’s herds stir, winged, furred, scaled, and stemmed, sunclock hot,…

#FF — The Great Builder

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields I was raised with foundations of a truth that made me prone to earthquakes, floods, drought, and wildfires. The Great Builder assigned worker bees to this aimless wretch. Stone by stone, my foundation was overlaid with bioliths of resonant wonder, kindness, grace, patience, forgiveness, laughter, companionship, guilelessness – and reciprocation….

dVerse — Poetics — Hara-tsuzumi (Belly Hand Drum) (was quadrille 106)

It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito Shaded sepiaBipedal banditBushy chaseBig bouncing ballsPendulous paunch Youkai iconKin to kitsuneDebaucherous ninjaShapeshifter Picaresque playerFor human gamesSaucy cane rapperVisiting tricksterDeals the cards Laid back funBelly hand drumFrom the forestAt your door

dVerse Poetics — and then there was…

primary school student’s art based on Eric Carle collage Her muse fingers slip across glossy magazine pages searching: beyond articulate vibes shake puzzle pieces to populate her collage. She wonders if this is how gods do it. Head of bull, tail of tiger, feet of chicken, woolly barrel chest of buffalo. Clouds grey and winds…