Words flee as senses stir into sounds, smells, tastes; mingled breaths where streams of sweat join; eyes snap shots as tongues trail, fingertips trace, then grasp and tease; spirit and flesh are one with two. Words flee as sounds soar and then subside to dreamless sleep. Image: The Kiss, by Jos Coufreur…
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! #48 – September 1, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! La Dolce Vita (1960) Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Walter Santesso, Lex Barker, Nadia Gray, Valeria Ciangottini, Riccardo Garrone, Audrey McDonald, Polidor, Enrico Glori Director: Federico Fellini Genres: drama Synopsis: Marcello is a man who left his…
dVerse — haibun — dunewater
For those of us who live along the western edge of Michigan, the lake is in our back yards. I’ve never lived more than five miles from the lake (for long) as the water pulls me to it. Beyond the water though, the sand dunes act as both a buffer to any weather that comes…
#Haikai Challenge #153: cricket (koorogi) / #154: morning-glory (asagao)
dewy flags unfurl to fall wind’s bright trumpets tired crickets now sleep morning glories open us to the new day’s chorus top image link here bottom image is from the collection called Momoyogusa = Flowers of a Hundred Generations by Kamisaka, Sekka (b1866-d1942) from The New York Library…
Doodads — Christmas in August
The first photo shows the latest batches of Pink Brandywine tomatoes picked, ripening on and near the eastern window ledge. I set one on a saucer so you can see how big they are. They are meaty tomatoes that do not cook into mush when used. This is the first year I’ve planted them outside…
dVerse — verbify — motioning
coffeeing sips early miling fall tomatoing depeppering plants deadheading pinks watering dusts due to hoarding clouds sweating, drained, chickadeed, jaying, unseeded lazying, jungled and joking unhumusing compost unrelaxed incenser Björn is today’s host for dVerse. Björn says: Verbing is a great tool that can also be a tool for imagery and metaphors….
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