Ai Weiwei — prison is a state of mind

I was just looking at a google feature I didn’t know existed until now, Google Art and Culture. When I saw Ai Weiwei’s name I immediately had to check it out. The photo was taken at Alcatraz, the island prison off of the coast of CA. If you click on the title, it will take…

dVerse — Poetics — The Ballad of Hillscomb

image link The Ballad of Hillscomb Folks claim when Red rode in one dusk the sky poured blackish green;That green of corn crept black and that their apple cheeks drained ash;The steed Red wheeled was white as death, with apparition’s sheen;Her burdened mules’ poor staggered steps as if to be their last. They say that…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #53 – October 6, 2020

Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Besides the ones I will review today, I’ve also been watching the BBC TV Series, New Tricks, that ran from 2003-2015 (just finished S3) and Hinterland (on S2 now) on Netflix, a Scottish series from a few years ago. I highly recommend both of these series. New…

dVerse — quadrille — Evening’s Cocoon

Evening’s Cocoon Jack’s huffs invade uncaulked cracks.His heat-seeking wisps tickle myuncovered cheeks and snake down tobare ankles and slipper-froze tater-tot toes. I, winter butterfly, weave evening’s cocoon.Softest flannel sheets, under thin cottonblankets, under a satin comforter gleams warm under October’s moon.   pxfuel image link Merril is today’s host of dVerse. Merril says:Use blanket as…

Haikai Challenge #158: Harvest Moon (meigetsu) and dVerse OLN — Chang’e

Moon Goddess Milk skin, coal hair, hersilk robes once swished earthbound;now moonlight grace shines down.Mid-autumn Harvest honorsher with humble offerings.   From Traveling China Guide Chang’e (Chang E) Flying to the Moon is the most widely told Mid-Autumn Festival legend. It is said that in ancient times, ten suns existed in the sky and the…

#FF — These Days

PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin These days she was feeling the heat. Her old boss kept claiming her ideas until he was promoted to division chief. The new boss, twenty years her junior, learned all he could from her then downsized her. A trickle of unemployment benefits were left and the headhunters could only offer…