Current pictures from fmg. Older son is on vaca so he was able to join in as well. It’s the first time he saw his niece feeding the koi at the waterfall. Remember that pretty yellow iris from TankaTuesday poem? The night of the day I took the pic someone/something snapped the stalk. I brought…
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.
dVerse OLN 362 — Reprieve
Reprieve Remember Adam and The Apple? Recall Robert Johnson at The Crossroads? The traveler standing where “two roads diverged in a yellow wood*” ring a bell? Yes or no Right or left Myth Empty reflection Imagine reality of endless hallway endless doors, each a decision that must be made before proceeding. Behind each door endless…
#FF — The Secret Ingredient
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The Secret Ingredient My tastes are very particular. He has to be part Viking and part Mr. Rogers, part Sisyphus and part Quixote, part God and part earthworm, part wizard and part toad. I am each suitors’ Excalibur as they approach my stone heart and attempt to draw positive regard…
dVerse — Poetics — “Stepping Out of this World” cento from April 2 ekphrastic prompt poems (amended)
Photo by John McKaveney: Bright Moon The Moon is very important to us in many ways a lot of people don’t realize. Without the Moon and the delicate balance it creates, life on Earth may not have evolved. It also helps protect us from Solar System debris like asteroids (as is evident from all the…
24 SSPC 35 (1st week) Fine Weather (May 20 – June 5) Shoman — June in May
June in May May dressesbright with June’s summer blossoms;bees fill their pocketbooks;robins hop tall grassfor noisy worms;wrens sing trees. seox form kigo used: summer blossoms, robins hunting worms, birds singing Note: the big/tree lilacs have bloomed and gone a couple of weeks ago. The top image is of one of the dwarf lilacs that…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — eternal landscapes
Eternal Landscapes I remember everything in my grandparents’ yard, from towering hundred years’ oak to a field of lily-of-the-valley. Oriental poppy and fuschia-hued peonies reached for the sun along the property line rough brick fence. Rose of Sharon to the left side of many-windowed front room. Behind them, in the shade of pines, a stump…
To Chris, One of the Angels (was#FFFC — Angels Unaware)
I’m reposting this in remembrance of the passing of Chris Cornell 7 years ago today. First posted 11/25/2019. I was forty-two years old when the bus hit me. I died instantly, suddenly finding myself floating upwardly to that place that you only know is real once you’re headed there. One of the first things I…
Tao Talk 