Faithful servants, they ask so little. When day rests, soft tinkles’ taps above ripples in still’s dying light. The top photo was taken in July, 2009, after we’d finished sailing and had our small Siren 17 up on the trailer. The marina and the surrounding area looks quite a bit different today. I miss those…
Month: February 2024
24 SSPC 20 (1st week — Feb 4-9) Beginning of Spring (Feb 3-20) Risshun — False Spring
False Spring Cloudless blue’s sun melts remaining snow piles November witch hazel buds blooming Hawks’ plaintive cries for spring fever Back field fooled; sprouting new grass Wet trail from garden hose Empty bird feeders Heater silent Unzipped coat Smiling Cheeks reverse etheree form kigo used: remaining snow(piles), sprouting new grass, false spring (title) Colleen Chesebro…
d’Verse – Quadrille Monday 194 — Red Dragon
Red Dragon Smoke smell fastened, pulled from valley, I climb the hill to barren ash. Trauma woods fire-blackened, uprights flattened. Bracken-scaled, flexing talons, vengeful dragon. Imagining what passion called, where sense crawled, slack- jawed madness, scorched earth fashion, happened. Knight pageant, cannon-wagonned batten down for fight. With this, my method was to go to rhymezone,…
4 new albums
Here are the 4 new albums (CDs) I bought. 3 of them were used through discogs but the Idles one is new. It started with the HBO series, Treme, Season 1. For anyone who hasn’t seen the show, set in New Orleans, not long after Hurricane Katrina, it’s all about the music. And of course…
Spring is wiggling its way…
It was sunny part of yesterday, and at 5:27p.m., it is still light out AND it was sunny all day today. First are pics taken inside of the African Violet (above) and the rosemary in bloom in the atrium. Next, are a couple of the prickly pear cactus plant. I believe every one of the…
#SLS — “Vogue,” by Madonna
Dick Tracy (Beatty) and Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) I knew I wanted to choose this song, and I thought it started with Madonna, but wikipedia says otherwise. Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. Voguing gained mainstream…
The Oracle Speaks — A Day Suited
bare my tiny dream symphony honey moon music from above wanting less at my feet but chanting for light to spray about a day suited as summer Using the original set at magnetic poetry I’m always grateful for what The Oracle tells me. Try it and paste a link to what The Oracle told you…
Tao Talk 