Lions in the Street (image from their website) This is a band I found on SRR and the more I listen to the band the more I like it. They have great vocal harmonies, good guitar work, and lovely progressions in their melodies. Their discography includes their eponymous debut in 2009, On the Lam EP…
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 — MTB — ready (bop poem)
ready five by eight once enough twenty cent journals held ballpoint ink, keyboards, glue, mag clippings, thoughtbytes media to remember, process, now shrink to insufficiency I found a box and put a room inside to obsess posters, billboards iron skyward, field-installed monuments, to hail impossible survival beyond life’s hell-all relentless, warping onslaught by exploiters and…
24 SSPC 32 (2nd week) — Grain Rain (April 19 – May 4) Koku — renga with Colleen
an empty attic the sound of April showers thunderous rumblings train ticket rests on mantle old dog asleep at my feet spring melancholy cold, soggy steps to station haze curtains river weeping willow fronds flutterpale reflections mirror sky top image by Jonas The first renga has Colleen’s hokku and my wakiku. The second one is…
#FF — Miss, Right?
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Miss, Right? “Mom and Dad, I want you to meet her! She’s my everything!” Chip, our thirty-five-year-old son, chose video games over partnering up years ago. His proclamation fills me with glazed confusion peppered with hope. “Where’d you meet her?,” my wife asks. “Gaming chat room six months ago. She’s…
MMB Week 18 (was Women Music March 2022 – Day 20 –) Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens. click on link to take you to a PBS interview Rhiannon Giddens (b. 2/21/77) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player. Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina,…
dVerse — Q200 — ablaze
ablaze Spring in full sway, when dandelions peep low to call in drowsy pollinators. Twenty nine blazes, scatter-shots grass bright with yellow on green flag. Unfurled spirit, nature’s patriot foundation, under scant pear blossoms. Pale demure ruffles tiptoe branches where robin, dove, and chickadee pause. Michelle (aka Mish) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday….
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