I was first introduced to Anne’s work through April’s A to Z Challenge. I started participating in and reading other participants in 2019. Anne’s blog theme that year was fantastical creatures. What impressed me most about her entries was the research into the beasts with ample illustrations, wood prints whenever possible. Her 2020 theme was…
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.
The Sunday Muse 162 — White Mums
Puzzled crow envies the puddled stillness of the moon tonight. Even clouds flee the stale smell of worm castings after the storm. Your screams were silenced in thunder; white mums will grace your tombstone. Today’s offering is in the form of a Sijo, a three-line poem that is believed to have first appeared in…
Doodads — flowers in the rain
It’s been beautiful most of the week, sunny and warm. There was a brief thunderstorm at the beginning of the week. Wednesday night it rained by cleared by morning. Later yesterday afternoon it became overcast again and rain began to fall. Afraid of possible overnight frost with the temperature drop I went out to cover…
dVerse — OLN — Kindku Double Feature
Healer Magician, god-imbued face, stage-glides in feathers soul searching each heart to pour the kindness of grace. Mango sunrise through stained glass sears clean forbidden streaks as it heals heaven’s lost. Magicked Magician, your tricks ruffle soft through my feathers, soul strings thrummed in tune. A strange mix of carnal grace, mango martinis where redeemed…
#FF — Pest
PHOTO PROMPT © Miles Rost Vert prided herself on growing enough fruits and vegetables to sustain her family year-round. She used only organic cultivation methods: deploying companion plantings, diatomaceous earth, ladybugs, and sprays from bottles with neem oil, cayenne pepper, and water to deter even the most persistent pest. Yet none of it deterred the…
dVerse — Poetics — Repurposing
“I’m in a glass case of emotion.” -Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 – Repurposing I’m in a glass case of emotioncasually placed on your shelfa trophy for the world to seeyet suffocating, dessicating,becoming a museum piece;an oddity, an icon of other times,something you visit on “free day” Let me be your Wardian casedeep…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #85 – May 25, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Let’s start with one I started to watch, “For Your Consideration” (2006) where I got close to halfway through when it froze and wouldn’t finish playing. It’s a comedy directed by Christopher Guest and written by Guest and Eugene Levy and stars Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Rannazzisi, Ed…
Tao-Talk 