Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge Day 1 – Monster

This is my first year participating in this challenge and I’m excited to give it a try. I have no idea how my experiment will work out but I’m going to try to write one long Halloween story for the challenge, one part per day that will include the day’s word. Part 1 If you…

POPO2022 — Day 1 — mushrooms

each cap gives a nod chitin kingdom’s noble realm transition’s castle each cap gives a nod acknowledgement of duty: transform death to life chitin kingdom’s realm’s subterranean networks flip night into day transition’s castle marches on yesterday’s grist to mill today’s bread

#FF — Timeless

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Merle’s now-silver, but still-wavy hair shines like a beacon from a block away. He’s sitting at their bench, the one they met at each afternoon after classes. The campus has changed so much, but the iron bench remains, the same deep blue the sky has on a clear day. Marie…

Tanka Tuesday — The Nature of Lightning — (troiku)

sparked veins of sky leaves glimpses of another place jungles fill heaven sparked veins of sky leaves backlit roadmaps, star rivers storm’s altered senses glimpse another place weather opens the portal petrichor perfume jungles fill heaven imagination flies free as wet wings lift us troiku form top image link Colleen is the host of Tanka…

dVerse — Poetics — A World in Balance

A mountain bright then shadow-flipped as sun traverse the sky. With nimbos clouds and lightning bolts, the lines begin to blur. Ten thousand things in motion is the way of things, yet why? A death white hot is beating down upon the red, cracked earth where each still living thing yearns for its long parch…

September’s Sunday Morning Rain (haibun)

September’s Sunday morning rain brings a flock of hungry robins to the complacent, slow worms. Clouds like flipping light switches turn the sun off and on. The birds are fattening up for the long flight south. It feels a bit early for their migration. They move with purpose and I swear excitement, as the lush,…