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.
haiga for winter solstice and Jethro Tull’s, “Ring Out, Solstice Bells” (repost)
Now is the solstice of the yearWinter is the glad song that you hearSeven maids move in seven timeHave the lads up ready in a line Ring out these bellsRing out, ring solstice bellsRing solstice bells Join together ‘neath the mistletoeBy the holy oak whereon it growsSeven druids dance in seven timeSing the song the…
#FF — Pa’s Wisdom
PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin “Brick holds heat” was one of Pa’s litany of wisdom bits rotated and pulled out for teaching moments. Years later, on this bitterly cold day, he looks to the sky and thanks his Pa once again. “People run from ugly.” The building has offputting broken windows, illegible graffiti, and a…
MMB 43 — Steely Dan’s, “My Old School”
Looking through the music folder, Steely Dan jumped up and volunteered. Anyone who knows The Dan knows that choosing a song from a long list of great ones isn’t easy. Scrolling through the first disc of Citizen Steely Dan’s box set, I found, “My Old School.” Never really knew much more about the song than…
#SLS — Top 40 Charter — “Would I Lie to You,” by Eurythmics
Eurythmics 1985 When we started putting it down the song had a lot of energy and inspired Annie to come up with the great lyric, ‘Would I Lie To You” and a melody with very odd answering harmonies, ‘Now, would I say something that wasn’t true.’ These harmonies are very unusual and Annie is a…
The Oracle Speaks — Dirty
soft belly marble colors me champagne broken baby working to heal in caramel corduroy of melt embrace poetry fly a naked fool for need never haunts air fire flower fever cake blushy red with joy growl hot moist magic make dirt of this time only doing is sacred top image link Magnetic poetry using the…
24SSPC 12 Heavy Snow (2nd Week, Dec 7-20) Taisetsu
Why does winter choose unvarnished midnight to gift clarity of truth? Cold capriciousness may mercifully be veiled — white breath’s forgetting. Late to the party but finally here. I chose to write using the 12th of the 24 forms, mondo, where it can be written with 2 people or one person writing both parts. I…
Tao Talk 