ArrivalEach arrival you push yournull rival away, timing right;call far, bring birdsong;hew dull brown to green;awake asleep; dandelionsnavigate lion winds; puffstessellate landscape tomatch cloud-patched sky.Energized, we frolic, ournetherworld forgotten; youtreasure, Sacred You, Spring! De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a 44-word poem using the…
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.
A2Z 2025 — Day 6 — Froggies!
Looks like I picked a good color scheme for the Celtic letter F, as it matches with one (or more) of the froggies. You may or may not know it, but I collect frogs. They are zen masters of transformation, and they sing so pretty. I’ve already heard spring peepers on a warmer day we…
#SLS — “Black,” by Pearl Jam
Cover of 1991 promotional single “Black” by Pearl Jam Any member of the Jamily (Pearl Jam Devotees) must consider “Black” to be in their list of top PJ songs. It’s like having a favorite Bible verse for Christians. It is essential PJ listening. Anyone in the Jamily knows the song is about lead singer’s, Eddie…
A2Z 2025 — Day 5 — Echinacea and Euonymous
Euonymous Euonymous grows in the front of the house, one in front of each window and one in between the windows. It’s a lush plant that grows very well and needs regular pruning. It’s green until fall, when its leaves turn red like you see in the pic, which was taken at the end of…
A2Z 2025 — Day 4 — Doves
Doves Mourning doves are plentiful in my yard. I wrote a poem on them awhile back. you may call them turtle doves; monogamous pairsyet menage a trois at times, during courtship gameswhen wings whistle on take-off, flying fast and straightthey live thirty years or more and stay through seasonstheir streamlined yet pudgy forms, of silk,…
dVerse — MTB — Open, Season
Open, Season Bulbous, about-sprouting from ginger experiment planted,fascinates, as likensto libidinous rising.Open manifest of urge to life stirs. Brethren, called to Spring’s calllikewise burst in round and pointed ways.My gaze fixedon their green sex. Who saysit’s confined towarm bloodpumping up and up? Tiny eggsand spermput to dirtbed sleep.Warm wetdreamsawake,open.Come,life! Muskegon (my home town) boy, Iggy…
A2Z 2025 — Day 3 Cottonwood Catkins and Cosmos
Cottonwood Catkins There were no cottonwood trees growing here when we moved here in 2011. We had some of what we thought were sycamore trees in pots and planted them. Both turned out to be cottonwood. They’ve grown very quickly. This pic was taken on 032925, where the catkins are out. Some people don’t like…
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