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dVerse — OLN 329 — kousa promise

Green cornstarch circle holds kousa promise fulfilled – my prayers answered. Prayers don’t always have to be for big things. Two autumns ago I gathered fruits from the kousa dogwood tree I discovered at my dentist’s office and saved the pits. I planted them this spring in pots and put the pots outside. These two…

Cat Pic — Mlady, taken January 4, 2023

Trent posted some sweet cat pics today, which inspired me to share my most recent pic of Mlady. She has started to do this crossing of her paws lately, and I think my exuberant reaction to it has encouraged her to keep doing it. She looks like she’s lost in thought. I wonder what she’s…

#FF — The Call

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot My dingy descent didn’t happen overnight. Each step is an independent entity containing a varied amalgam of components including conscious/unconscious conditioning, fear, impulsivity/ premeditation, peer pressure, focus, practice, tap dancing, blind leaping, thoughtfulness/ thoughtlessness, kindness/cruelty, and so many other motivations/de-motivations. Addictions, also motivated by these, have lubricated the process. Likewise-situated…

Tanka Tuesday 301 — Chlorophyllic

Primordial, I shimmer green in the sunlight, unarticulated compel. Inhabiting non-existence just moments before, primordial, I shimmer. Corporeally emergent a novice to being, green in the sunlight. Mirrored flip, this to that craving synaesthesia, an unarticulated compel. Cascade form I went to rhymezone for my synonyms and built a list. From there I created the…

Movies 2022 Best & Worst

Since I was just having a blog conversation about best and worst movies of the year, looking at 250 entries at the library database, here are my choices. BEST, in no particular order: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris The Northman I liked it better on second viewing. Vengeance Top Gun: Maverick The Woman King The…

dVerse — Poetics — I was never there

You said you saw me walking but I was never there; a shadowy ghost in the burbs, you see me everywhere. My locks blend in with wind- bounced twigs, prickly grey. My teeth in with picket fence, where my smirking grin plays. My skirt, a flapping plastic of stripped windows, vacant home, I make sure…

dVerse Haibun Monday on January 2023

Over the Christmas weekend we had our first big blizzard and I was snowed in until the day after. We gathered on the twenty-seventh. The grandbaby passed out gifts and watched as each was opened. At one point, she crawled into my lap and put her head on my shoulder, a first. New Year’s Eve…