PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields “You chose your home well, in dappled shade, where food loves to rest from scorching sun,” said Miss Dragonfly. “Indeed. Spring was summer and summer is something beyond, heat-wise. Exposed would have meant death for my family,” said Miss Spider. “We may need to add a season,” said Miss Dragonfly….
Month: June 2024
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Summer Solstice Child and TT’s 24 SSPC 39 (1st week) The Summer Solstice (June 21 – July 6) Geshi
Summer Solstice Child My birthday is very near Summer Solstice. Back then, women spent days hospital-bound, which was thought to aid in recovery from the birthing experience. I imagine my mother’s face as she stepped out into warm sunshine’s balm from cool, pale, sterile halls holding a swaddled me. new lives beginning for we are…
Book Review — Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, edited by Gabriela Marie Melton
Book Review — Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, edited by Gabriela Marie Melton With over 160 poets, most writing 4 poems apiece, it became my morning meditation with first cuppajoe and a cat on my lap and one by my side, to read through several pages in each sitting. My original intention was to mark…
Doodads — Sunday weekly video and photo
So much to take pics and video of, it’s hard to keep ahead of it. Here’s a mish-mash of the past week. Videos I’ve been uploading to YouTube: And the final, surprise video. This is a cool solar-powered flame hot air balloon younger son and his wife bought me last year or the year…
dVerse — Poetics — Dad (repost)
summer rain fallsI remember how you lovedwarm days on the lake l.-r. me, my dad, and my brother Daddy’s hands were large, with dark hair and pleasant toneThey were proportionate to his thin frame and long bonesHands I used to stand and watch, transfixed, as he shaved My father’s eyes rarely had courage to meet…
dVerse — MTB — The Crow’s Should Examined
The Crow’s Should Examined Here again, I laboriously climbyew’s dry branches in dead forestto crow prophesy:Take warning, we should forgive each other.You disparage my oily black feathers,considering them unsightly, unclean.Consider this too, though polar, may youglean from me, as mouthpiece, morselsthat may nourish all souls?Instead we are opposite, westand, entrenched in our untenable positions, blinded,…
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