dVerse — Quadrille 162 (2) — Eye Heart Redbud

Heart-shaped leavesof redbud treeare silent bells; lulls,contradiction’s frenziedharvest’s winding down,in autumn’s gustswet from summer’s growing distant end.Too far either way until lavender clusters play.Eyes turn to still-greengrass, cushion for stark, life-seized portendof winter’s monotony.   2nd offering for this prompt Kim is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Kim says:Today I’d like you to take…

dVerse — Quadrille 162 — bells are ringing

French Dress 1871 Bell is a portal. Walking through, when I think “bell”I get caught up in pink Frenchsilk with frills, creamy skin,and heady perfume. Another cache’s trigger pulled,I giggle, after nearly fifty years,while watching SNL’s skit,“We need more cowbell!” Kim is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Kim says:Today I’d like you to take…

Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge Part 17 Vampire

Alien Vampire Painting by Nevets Killjoy Miss Martha shipped the mask off to the university lab via the Egyptian equivalent of Federal Express and it would be there by morning. She made some calls to the Supply Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces to get a pulse on what equipment and personnel might be able…

POPO2022 day 17 — dragonflies

sticks live – and they fly is how they maneuver why they’re dubbed dragonfly? sticks live – and they fly rainbow bodies, gossamer wings hunting over fields how they maneuver belies their simple design – except for their eyes they’re dubbed dragonfly sky’s tiny smokeless terrors unlit cigarettes

Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge Part 16 Mask

image link Jean bought a dozen owl pendants and put it on her charge card. It was late morning. She and Lok walked back to the hotel for lunch and to talk about what they had learned. Both of them came from a scientific perspective and so it was difficult to wrap their heads around…

POPO2022 day 16 — drunken lout

karma comes to play when a bastard goes astray barrel bottom blues karma comes to play in wee hours or bright of day stark silence of fail when one goes astray to a place of no return dingos sniff your trail barrel bottom blues as they rip out your entrails pieces everywhere

Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge Part 15 Spider

Camel Spider Before they said their lovey-dovey goodnights, they agreed that this thing was bigger than they were able to handle on their own. Jean would speak to Professor Sadek and lay out the hypothesis and share everything they had learned so far and ask what next. Marty would talk with his department head at…