Sea RoseColors here aren’t the same.Neither that of Spring,Nor Summer, nor Fall.Close to Winter,chalk of long-stripped bones,dark grey of wet stone,salt of churning sea.Only when moon greenswith limelight, in morningor dusky mist, mightyou see my liquid breath.Passed into my netherwith stab and twist,life ebbed, left with tide,after which my love soughtnew flesh to groom.Yet don’t…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
POPO2024 Day 32
Writing pen to paperis a satisfying experience.Sitting on the couch withcuppajoe to my leftand a cotton-furred catto my right, I don’t evenmind when Mlady taps atthe pen and otherwise distractsme with her cuteness.Maybe she injects magic,muse between the lines, as is her way.
Tanka Tuesday — Tanka Puente — This and That Are One
This and That Are OneMerging libidosFusion-powered ecstasyIlluminates usPulsing new in old darknessForming new clay from old dust~Warning: over-fired vessels flare~Sun’s trajectoryBurns toward imminent duskHere, under a starless skyCold blows over shattered bitsDissolved in pools of hot tears puente form poem (with tanka) image link Robbie Cheadle is today’s host of TankaTuesday. Robbie says:This week we are…
POPO2024 Day 31
I pour myself into fantasy worldswith their plots, emotional manipulations;safe spaces to feel.They keep me humanas I drift further from reality.I prefer their limitationsover the uneasy discomfortof awkward face-to-faceswith their wrong reads.People like me are better suitedto our fantasy worlds,odd characters on page and screen.
dVerse — Q209 — Boarders
American Indian Boarding School in the 1800’s BoardersA string of stolen children, scared, confused, snake, capped with flying penguins.Led to stools, stripped, dusted,and shaved, paving the way:institutional erasure.Sacked, sad, desked, rapped,slapped — and worse.So much worse. Unwilling orphans cry for parents.Unheard pleas echo lifetimes. From the Law Librarians of Congress website: In 2021, Canada passed…
POPO2024 Day 30
A hummingbird just cruised by,looking for last year’s sulfur cosmos.It strikes me that she hasa food supply memory.Sorry, little lady, not yet;but come back next weekand fill your wee belly.
POPO2024 Day 29
Is there anything more relaxingwhen the mind starts to racethan the coo of mourning dovein duet with a purring cat?Two worlds, synchronized;one moment, this momentas I drink first cuppajoe,windows open, looking outon plants that have bloomed,those about to, and the growingnumber of golf ball-sized tomatoes.
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