#SLS — “Vogue,” by Madonna

Dick Tracy (Beatty) and Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) I knew I wanted to choose this song, and I thought it started with Madonna, but wikipedia says otherwise. Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. Voguing gained mainstream…

The Oracle Speaks — A Day Suited

bare my tiny dream symphony honey moon music from above wanting less at my feet but chanting for light to spray about a day suited as summer Using the original set at magnetic poetry  I’m always grateful for what The Oracle tells me. Try it and paste a link to what The Oracle told you…

dVerse — OLN 355 — Around the Bend* (Ekphrastic for Woman with Flowered Hat)

Woman with Flowered Hat by Jean Dupas Perfumed rainbow blooms within,masked without by strained repose;mind that’s gone around the bend. Destination some may know,riot ruffles, tongues that speak;masked without by strained repose. Normals titter, “dumb and weak,”blockish shades who cast awayriot ruffles’ tongues that speak volumes, writ large in red clay;poems hummed by honeybees.Blockish shades…

FMG 013024

On Tuesday it was another drive to Grand Rapids to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (FMG) to spend time with family.  Since the temps got warmer, mixed with the snow, the drive over was very foggy.   It looks like they are having musical event in what we call “the big face room” on Tuesday…

#FF — Prison

PHOTO PROMPT © Susan Rouchard Prison Since the day Daddy held her down when Mama went to town; onward to the day Bobby, the butcher’s son, caught her in the school stairwell, she’d been in prison. Always looking over her shoulder on day errands and never venturing out at night, menace lurked as her companion….