This week’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille has the inspirational prompt of hawk. i Perched, her red tail wags, head swiveling to decide which snow drift to glide. ii Brown wings glide over white drifts; talons clutch the hare; sub-zero dinner. iii Winter hawk calls in the morning; there will be grief in snowy…
Author: Lisa or Li
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In 2525
image link Fandango’s FOWC is tree, and the Word of the Day Challenge is create. The year is 2525. Lorax Industries is the last corporation on the planet that creates trees. The tree-making machines operate on solar energy, but the sun gets dimmer every year. The trees are the only thing that keeps humans alive…
d’Verse Return
gif link Sarah is hosting d’Verse this evening. Sarah says: Tonight, I want you to write about a harbinger. My offering tonight to meet the prompt is in the form of a double etheree. Each night you stay after work like I do and meander to my work area. You pretend to seek my…
January Coloring Club — 1/29/19
I was listening to the Rolling Stones’ CD, “Between the Buttons” last night and planned on putting a tune from it on here. I decided against it because Hans is already covering it this week. Instead, I present to you one of the best group you’ve never heard of, Dutch Henry. “All That Space” is…
MLMM The Promised Skull
NEKNEERAJ of Mindlovesmisery Menagerie Photo Challenge has asked for a poem or story to go with the above image. I went with a free-form poem. Long I survey, with hollowed eyes, rubbled landscape, cloudless skies. Humans going to and fro, I watch and wait, through rain and snow. You said you’d come back, swore your…
d’Verse Quadrille to Winter’s Pheasant
Mish is the host of tonight’s d’Verse and gives the following prompt for tonight’s quadrille: So I give you the word “steep” to infuse into your poem of 44 words. Steep drifts shelter the pheasant outside my window. He stares in at the greenery and wonders at the mirage of summer. * I…
Getting to Know Me
Fandango at This, That, and The Other has tagged me for answering questions for others to get to know me better. I’m supposed to answer them then tag two others to answer them. If you haven’t seen Fandango’s page and daily One-Word Challenge, you are missing out. He’s an honest and friendly host that I’m…
Tao-Talk 