PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Imelda’s Surprise Part 3 Gecko made it easy to fall in love. When he started asking her to go with other men to prove her love, Imelda didn’t mind. She did wonder if she would have the strength to leave him when she’d saved enough. Mother’s strategy to hold her…
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dVerse — Poetics — Rough Old Gal
Photo by John McKaveney: Bright Moon (used with permission) Rough Old Gal Pockmarked and balding she spins in flux through sunshines and shadows. She’s a rough old gal a steady satellite I’ve learned to hitch my rope to. She’s got my back. This-here John fella snapped her in her glory. Isn’t it funny how we…
dVerse — Q198 — Suckered
Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows – Left Panel by Tanielle Childers Suckered Shop me as a list,check the boxes off,pray untwine my twist. Contour me with heat,sculpted to your fancy,bind me, sugar sweet,lollipopped, entrancing. Lick me as your prize,beyond the chewy center,until there’s nothing leftexcept an empty wrapper. Returning from a month-long poetry hiatus, I am…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 31 – Exene Cervenka
Exene Cervenka I don’t want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep ’em the same. I’d like to write more country songs, but other than that, I’m pretty good where I am. ~ Exene Cervenka Exene Cervenka (nee Christene Lee Cervenka) (b. 2/1/56)…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 30 – Ronnie Gilbert
Ronnie Gilbert 2006 Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. — said at the age of 10, after hearing Paul Robeson sing for the first time Ronnie Gilbert and The Weavers in 1950 Ruth Alice “Ronnie” Gilbert (b. 9/7/1926 – d. 6/6/2015) was an American folk singer, songwriter, actress, and political…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 29 – Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images People ask me if I ever get tired of singing that song and I go, ‘Hell, no!’” she says. “Who knows why people all over the world are so attracted to a goofy little song about a camel. But they are and, to this day, I…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 28 – Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson I do a little country music. And a little bit of jazz. A lot of blues and a lot of R&B. There’s no one slot that any of it fits into. So that of course works against you. Tracy Nelson (b. 12/27/44) is an American country and blues singer. She has been involved…
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