Dawn Jazz Landlord of Clocks tick-tocks through my dreams, raining salt on an untamed parade of roses that claw and scrabble towards respite moon. Oh, Lord! I grow weary of the climb; my midnight skin bleeds. Oh, their thorns! yet their faces carry me on, glowing red each dawn. This poem is dedicated both to…
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.
Movies, Movies, Movies! Best Movies Recap 2020 – 2021
Hello Everybody! This week’s installment will be a list of my favorite movies seen during 2021 but were made in 2020 or 2021. They are not in any particular order of liking. All are worth seeing. I have included a link to the trailers for each and also a short blurb on the plot. Next…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Celebrate 2021
“Snow Effect, The Street in Argentuil,” (1875) by Claude Monet Since becoming single again in 2017, retiring from my fast-paced government job in 2018, and the onslaught of the pandemic starting in 2019, the holidays and their hoopla have been shifting into a steadily lowering gear. Where before there were multiple family and social gatherings,…
Reading in 2021
I never read as many books as I would like to, but I’m always happy to have read the ones I have. At this point in my reading life, if a book’s message doesn’t grab me within a certain number of pages it is set aside. There were quite a few of those this…
Doodads — Candy — worst? best?
Aside from Halloween and Easter, Christmas is the season with a lot of candy lying about. Last night, for some reason I was thinking about candy I like and candy I don’t like. Starting with candy that I find to be inedible, two come to mind: orange circus peanuts and Milky Way bars. Worst Orange…
#TSM 192 — Sojourners
In before times all was a dreaming sleep. Awake, the days came; the forming colors flew from atomic cosmoplasmic brew; first, slithering like a great blue snake, came river, calling down –then laying itself on– brown dust. Oh seeds dance! Babies, lush, green, spring up trying to return to heavenly slumber; then fall — to…
“Ding Dong Ding Dong,” by George Harrison — Ringing in 2022 — Ding Dong Ding Dong by George Harrison
image link And here we are, at the end of another year. Please enjoy this George Harrison ear worm. The video is entertaining as well.
