George Jones (click on link to George’s biography in the Country Music Hall of Fame) Anyone who has read my blog for awhile knows that George Jones is my favorite country singer. There is something about not only the range of his voice but the genuine passion with which he sings that has nobody else…
Month: April 2024
24 SSPC 31 (1st week) — Grain Rain (April 19 – May 4) Koku — hungry, captivating, sound sleepers
hungry nested atop, myrtle spurge blooms baby birds awake; faimed at noon, sway, seeking sun’s warm respite from spring gusts ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ captivating pear blossoms, tiny promises hold garden strollers hostages filling us with deep spring’s tranquility ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ sound sleepers tomato, pepper seeds planted weeks ago; gift of life granted seedlings’ blessed dreams under April’s full…
dVerse — Poetics — Mr. Whiskers
“Untitled” by Louis Wain Born in a barn, to a rangy queen on her tenth litter and a tom with fuzzy dice balls and only one ear, he clawed and scrambled for the teat as if his life depended on it – and it did – six litter-mates didn’t. Farmer Jones’ son, a kindly sort,…
dVerse MTB Pantoum (2nd) Ode to Earth Day 2024
Ode to Earth Day 2024 When winter’s terminal quiescence resurrects into spring, an insistence in tiptoes of leaf, blade, and sprout, colors creep in from waking corners. Resurrected into spring, an insistence calls beaks, close-branched to distant ocean lands; colors wing from waking corners to join, rustle, sing, court, nest, in celebration. Chick beaks from…
The Oracle Speaks: Bitter Eggs
bitter eggs bitter eggs boil black, never shine. hot spray lives on juice of less, smearing sausage sweats; trudges, rusted lazy meat. The Oracle had an unusual message today. One I will have to ponder. I used the Original set of words today. The collage is from 2019.
Friday Favorite Feature 30 — Cherry Blossoms at FMG
This pathway of cherry trees is near the entrance. There is also a walkway of them in the Japanese Gardens. Tuesdays are the days I drive to Grand Rapids to meet up with younger son and his family. This past Tuesday they got held up by a work conference call, so I had a chance…
#MMB week 16 — John Hiatt, “Icy Blue Heart”
John Hiatt John Robert Hiatt (b. 8/20/52) is an American singer-songwriter. His parents were Robert and Ruth Hiatt. He is the sixth of seven children in a Roman Catholic family from Indianapolis, Indiana. When he was 9 years old, Hiatt’s 21-year-old brother Michael died by suicide. Two years later, his father died after a long…
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