dVerse — apostrophe — Cool Relations

Dear Snow, who comes and goes at whim, Dangling, tangling scarves here and there, Must you be so fickle and play until you stay? Perhaps this is why, when bundled, I love crunching you beneath my boots? Puny hairless human, how could I not try to toy with beings so ill-equipped for joy? Never once…

Coloring Club Plus — 12/5/19

My apologies for another late posting. I stayed up late last night watching the end of the Chernobyl mini-series, went out to lunch with friends, then headed over to the annual beauty products sale at the “house of beauty.” I started this coloring last night and thought as I started filling it in it would…

#FF — Ashes Like Snow

PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria The BOOM pulled us out into the night. At first they said it was a fire, but the colors looked all wrong. It felt like a holiday, and the children chased each other in the dewy grass as we watched the glow reach heaven. The ashes fell on us…

Coloring Club Plus — 12/4/19

Today’s selection is a new one for me. I know the Indigo Girls, but I went out in search of a song that had a forest in it and Christmas, and this one sounds pretty danged good. I also learned that they are currently doing a few shows. Indigo Girls are an American folk rock…

dVerse — Wordless

Laura is today’s host for dVerse.  Laura says: The challenge is to choose ONE or MORE from THE LIST of words BELOW and include it/them in the body and/or title of your poem. If possible, add a soupçon of hopefulness for Hope is the message in this first advent week! ageless ~ boundless ~ breathless ~…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #14 – December 3, 2019

A Touch of Sin (2013) Starring: Wu Jiang, Lanshan Luo, Baoqiang Wang, Jia-yi Zhang, Tao Zhao, Li Meng Director: Zhang Ke Jia Synopsis: Four powerful, unflinching vignettes that each, in their own way, showing a human being pushed past their point of endurance. Exploitation and corruption are a continuing thread that run through each. Excellent…

What do you see? #6 — First Sighting

image by:  JOHN TOWNER @unsplash Log of events as captured by implant recorder’s stream of consciousness by subject #A463992 on July 31, 2070AD: July 31st is the day it was broadcast across planet Earth that the extraterrestrial invasion was imminent. I was on my bicycle on a favorite country road, riding the snaking road through…