Monday’s Red Rose It started with Monday’s red rose left on my doorstep. I smiled, wondering who my secret admirer was. On Tuesday, I arrived home and found a box of high-priced chocolate truffles, kept cool with an ice pack. One melted on my tongue as my imagination wandered again as to my admirer. Each…
Author: Lisa or Li
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dVerse — Prosery — May Day Knocks
For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May –From “May Day” by Sara Teasdale I’ve fallen on black days. My ears are deaf to birdsong; nose unmoved by the scent of hyacinth; the soft crush of early strawberries between my molars untasted. Mid-Spring breezes skim over…
Tanka — Witch Hazels’ Spring Gathering
Ten Hazels draw close in a loose circle, waiting for moonlight’s soft spell; silver bark sprouts white tendrils who search for kin in the dark. I ordered ten witch hazel bare root shrubs over a month ago as part of a fundraiser annual plant sale for the local conservation club. I picked them up on…
#TSM 209 — Limbo, or Black Days
Image source Akilter, lying down — even as you see me upright – a blank in kelp bed, fathoms below, asleep, await. My fate unknown as yet. Will it be angel’s lift that buoys to sunrise? Or fey stones, that weigh and sink beleaguered, deflated organs of light? My sight occluded, my guesses gone; laced,…
God’s Servant
yellow like the sun god made bananas to serve wrinkled faces smile image link
Doodads — walk around the yard today
It’s been awhile since sharing any pics, but I’ve been pretty busy. Today I had time to walk around the yard. None of the pics have been resized, nor have any been edited. Those parts I did not have time — nor energy — for. Things are greening up nicely out there! Some of the…
TV Movie Draft, Round 5, Friday, May 6, 2022 Ray Donovan
Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan Originally on Showtime 7 seasons, from 2013 – 2020 (and a movie in 2022) 82 episodes (12 in each of the first 6 and 10 in the 7th season) Directors: with # of episodes: John Dahl (11,) Tucker Gates (9,) Michael Uppendahl (9,) David Hollander (6,) Allen Coulter (4,) Daniel…
Tao-Talk 