If you want to read fantastic international haiku from the Akita International Haiku Network, please follow this blog. My haiku and haiga will be featured in February! Instead of Matsuo Basho, it is my greatest delight and honor to announce the results of the World Haiku Series 2021. We would like to express our great…
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.
TSM 189 — Nature Girl
Nature Girl Mama yells, “don’t get your frock dirty,” asshe skips away to play among wren tinklesand sunbeams through tall stands of pine. Bursting from the dappled path, she glimpseswhere silver ripples the mere speck of a lake;a dancing gingham butterfly flits as flowers sway. Casting off her cap and all the rest, she tip-toesamongst…
Doodads & Getting Fit — Yesterday’s walk
On my month-long blogging break, I got more out of my head and more into my body. The fitness challenge continues. Unless I buy a fat tire bike to ride this winter, bicycling is over until Spring. I have linked up with a group that does two kinds of walking: urban, which is a tame…
dVerse — MTB — Daisy Petal Fragments
“Bubbles,” by Marcus Adkins two pulsing orbs cloaked against cold in a rose-colored morning cartwheeling gulls laugh humping in the sky with the thrill of sin bright scarlet testaments in glittered shards of bliss R.E.M. springs with hope, “let my machine talk to me”* let [your] machine talk to [you] let our machines make music…
The Second British Invasion Music Series — The Brit Box, Disc 1, Track 9, “Walkin’ With Jesus” from, “The Perfect Prescription,” by Spacemen 3
image from Discogs “Walkin’ with Jesus” was first released as a single in November, 1986, from Spacemen 3’s 2nd studio album, “The Perfect Prescription,” which was released in September, 1987. The song was also included on the 1994 re-issue of their first studio album, “Sound of Confusion,” as well as on the Spacemen 3 compilation…
#FF — What’s Left
PHOTO PROMPT © LIsa Fox There it sat, unused, isolated; the manifestation of the best efforts of across-the-aisle compromise in both houses. Governor Wilmer had sighed as she scribbled her signature on the bill, a subtle acknowledgment of her complicity, an impotent figurehead of the shambles of a once actualized ideal: representative government. She left…
Hanspostcard song draft (final) Round 10, Pick 9, “Cactus Tree,” by Joni Mitchell
(corrected) album cover, “Song to a Seagull“ Here we are, at the tenth and final round of the 2021 Hanspostcard Song Draft. It has been a pleasure sharing my favorites with you all and a delight to listen to your choices and learn more about them. For my last choice, again, it is one of…
Tao-Talk 