Pine boughs bent with snow Hide birds from numbing death Withering winds hunt Winter’s shortened days Farenheit falls, wind gallops Whistling ‘cross the plain Lost in blind blizzard A traveler lays down Now warm and sleepy Horizontal winds bring Lullabies from heaven Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haiki Challenge. Frank says:…
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.
#SLS — Down by Pearl Jam
Jim Adams is the faithful host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week the prompt is Around/Down/Sideways/Up. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit, then please explain why you chose this song. • Please try…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/2/19
I heard this one yesterday on Liam Sullivan’s Panorama of the Mountains’ “Monthly Mixtape.” Sampa Tembo (born 1993), known professionally as Sampa the Great, is a Zambian singer-songwriter, and rapper. Sampa Tembo was born in 1993 in Zambia and raised in Botswana. She was based in Sydney from 2014 to 2018, originally coming to Australia…
What do you see? #1 — She Soars
For long she swam in pools of jade But now her wings soar lilac skies Twixt earth and sky in orange brocade For long she swam in pools of jade In shadows waits; she’s heaven-made Transform from sleep! Awake! Arise! For long she swam in pools of jade But now her wings soar lilac skies!…
#MM Music Challenge — Forever Young by Bob Dylan — Modified Erasure Poem Duet
Jim Adams is the dedicated host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Forever Young, by Bob Dylan] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, a piece of flash fiction, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography, (etc.) that you…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/1/19
Today’s selection will be from another album that has been sitting in my collection that hardly ever gets played – and I don’t know why! This stuff jams. I was blessed enough – at least in some ways – to have a boyfriend at age 18 that was a musician and into jazz fusion. He…
Thursday Inspiration 28 — Demon Hunter (long)
Geonni came home from the war on a stretcher and was minus a limb. Back in those days, prosthetics were of a more primitive nature. Johnny’s was a carved, featureless facsimile made from wood. As polished as the part that met with his skin was, wearing and walking with it left bleeding ulcers that resulted…
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