Calling all poets! Calling all poets! Please take a look at the beautiful artwork on the cover of a book currently in the making. Submissions are still being taken for it. Today, I am excited to reveal the cover of the forthcoming anthology from Gabriela Marie Milton and EIF, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
dVerse — Quadrille 149 — cloudfish speaks
It matters not the season, awake or asleep, please know me and understand, from grain of sand shifting with water, to morning’s crystals on a blade of grass, to your hands along warm scented skin, my swimming infinity; tender breadcrumbs offered as holy gifts. [44 words] I wanted to use one of my collages to…
TSM 205 — Haunted Diner
“The Whitehouse Diner” Photo by Aaron Segreaves Haunted Diner I can still hear them, their laughter, the plates and glasses clinking. I can still hear them, when youth’s engine blushed our cheeks. Spied then I, two entwined through the glass, heart sinking. Flames grew tall; I torched them all without thinking. I can still hear…
No A2Z for me this year.
the beastie in thesodden wood does coil, raise itsburlish back in wait I had the best intentions of participating this year, but the Women Music March has taken the oomph out of it for me. I still plan on taking a look at the list and following the ones that sound interesting but will…
dVerse — OLN 313 and earthweal 112 — A Walk in the Woods tanka series
just a few steps in wreathe of trailing arbutus glistens in the rain soon my coat is heavy also soggy humus path my home ◊◊◊ such a tiny thing this small pink berry, yet it becomes a world here litter of wet forest floor rotting testament to life ◊◊◊ imagination wants me to believe that…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 31 – Detroit’s Own: Karen Neal of Inside Out, Thrall, Queen Bee, and Beyond!
Karen Neal, bass player From Bass Girls International (clicking the image link takes you there) Gear: Fender Precision Bass(EMG pickups), Ampeg SVT 350 original tube head, Ampeg 410 guitar cabinet, Boss Bass Overdrive pedal.Current band: Queen Bee / They Never Sleep (aka Thrall)First bass: Peavey T40First band: Inside Out (all-female!)Favourite band: Dead Kennedys (original)Favourite place:…
#FF — The Hard Way
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot The gavel rapped sharply. “This meeting will come to order. First on the agenda: parking signs on Desolation Row. We all know parking fine income has dropped to nil. We need to get creative.” “Mayor, the municipal conference in Vegas I just went to had a parking sign vendor there….
Tao-Talk 