want vacant breakfastsuits my vacant morning mindovernight oatmeal!usual hot, cold, jazzed up withcinnamon, raisins, maple syrup mindless = vacanthumdrum = usual Selma Martin is today’s host of TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge. Selma says: Your Tanka Tuesday challenge invitation is to write a tanka, plus choose two synonyms using the two words: Mindless and Humdrum
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.
POPO2024 Day 45
I love nature, but 2 enemiesfrom it have made war necessary.Deathly allergic to poison ivyit was relentlessly creeping up the sides of the house. Ants from flowerbeds marched upinto wet rafters of atrium to munch.Thanks to wise blogmates, myammo of borax worked for both.Boxes of 20 Mule poured alongperimeter and tiny villages of Terro Treats…
dVerse Q210 – Winds of Arete
Winds of AreteWhat is it about white,its exertion of mightthrough tireless fightto strip honor and lightfrom others of the rightto unfurl wings to flight?Drums beat the daypulse for old-new waystravels on winds of arete.We will be heard. I’m reading Tommy Orange’s book, “There There” right now and feel it is a vital and important piece…
POPO2024 Day 44
Petting Mlady this morningI notice she has no eyelashes.It’s like they migrated north,into eye whiskers that complementthe ones coming out of her cheeks.Did eye lashes or whiskers comefirst in the evolutionary scheme?It really doesn’t matter, but it’s fun to wonder about as shesits and washes her face.
POPO2024 Day 43
Seventy and sunny all day long.I’m transported to Santa Barbarabut for a moment as threadsspin out, of good and bad,elephant-spider memories,and, with sheer will, retract.Oh that there was a wayto split memory atoms, to senddark ones back to sun’s furnaceto be alchemized to light; a wayto be returned as undistractedbright.
POPO2024 Day 42
“Mind over matter? If you don’t mind, it don’t matter,”Mikey says as he eats fire-roastedshish-kebobbed mouse on, “Alone.”He’s doing it to win half a millionto buy services for his non-verbalautistic young son.I have to ask myself, what do I get out of watching him do it.
Tao Talk 