Originally posted on Frank Prem Poetry:
It’s possibly not wise for me to do this, but I get very excited when I hit a milestone, and I think that has now happened. I’ve finished the format work for ebooks and paperbacks of the 3 books in A Love Poetry Trilogy, and am starting to schedule…
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.
Nature’s Medicine — Essential Oils
Last night I attended a lecture from an expert in essential oils and learned quite a bit; enough to know I’m going to start using them for aromatherapy and for medicinal purposes. Each participant concocted a small cobalt blue glass spritzer bottle of a refreshing combination of tea tree oil, lavender oil, and orange oil,…
#FF — This will be the last time.
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Merriam reluctantly allowed Bud, her less-than-ambitious boyfriend, to take her car during the day while she worked. In the afternoons she waited in the park across the street for him to pick her up at 3:05 p.m . A few minutes late wasn’t bad, but every day Bud was a…
What do you see? 14 — Them
They had everyone fooled. Their methods of mimicry were inferior to none. They even fooled the most astute scientists and food engineers who studied them under microscopes and in test tubes. An untold number of photographers had taken their images and pasted them on magazine covers, inside naturalist tomes, and on every social media forum….
dVerse — dreamland
Dreams are messages from home. –Clarissa Pinkola-Estes Vines string the pathway of Ethereal mist day, softened Songs of gentian butterflies Silvery wings of faeries Enormous sunflowers Lily pads; leaping leopard frogs Ogling bunnies with twitchy noses Fine fern fronds fondle furry ears Yarrow sway with rose mallow On a spongy marsh ledging Umbrellas glide, held…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #22 January 28, 2020
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) (60 years old now!) Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi Director: Akira Kurosawa Synopsis: Even though 60 years old now, the plot is just as fresh today as it was then. It’s a story…
#Haikai Challenge #123: first sparrows [twittering] (hatsusuzume)
Pink blanket pulled up Behind frozen bones of trees — Sparrow’s silhouette Snuggling in my warm bed Wakened, with Spring, by his song Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that states or alludes to…
Tao-Talk 