It starts small, like the tinkle of the cat’s collar. It trembles as the flipped blinds show a row of light. It rises with the stack of iced snow on the bird bath. It trickles with water falling from the aquarium filter. It gurgles with this morning’s coffee pot promise. It flits with house finches…
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Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard and dVerse OLN
Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:•Still Cold (yokan)/New…
dVerse — Poetics — Winter Rainbow
Winter Rainbow What do you call the color of sunlight on snow?A whiter white with flecks of sparkling prisms?Bright silver with contrasting greys of depth?Where corkscrewed plow has churned, itlooks like chopped gunmetal-colored cement. Fast-moving rust jerks, robotic in her searchfor milquetoast bits of kernels in mostly emptysunflower shells. Reds hit and run above herin…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #72 – February 16, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Ride the Divide: 2700 Miles Canada to Mexico (2010) Starring: Mike Dion, Michael ‘Mac’ McCoy, Steve King, Kevin Montgomery, Matthew Lee, Mary Metcalf-Collier, Steven Gleasner, Leighton White, Adrian Stingaciu, Reuben Kline, Kevin Hall, Dominic Scherer, Alan Goldsmith, Hunter Weeks Director: Hunter Weeks Genres: documentary Synopsis: imdb: “A…
Music that Strikes a Chord — Them Crooked Vultures
I have to thank Steve for the Deaf for making me aware of this group. Dave Grohl on drums (from Foo Fighters and Nirvana) John Paul Jones — yes, that one! — on bass, Josh Homme on guitar and vocals (from Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss) and Alain Johannes on live performances. These…
Happy Valentines Day!
To All of My Blog mates, I wish you the best day ever. I have an abiding affection for each of you. Now, just for you, a calorie-free sweet treat (written by George, in Eric Clapton’s garden, a warning to Eric and others that too much of a good thing might be bad for you. …
The Sunday Muse 147 — Inanna Blue
“Indigo Sky Mares” by Laurel Burch. Click HERE for her website. Whims and spoils of heaven’s toyingtake their toll on kings and queens.Beams of light can be cold comfortas we flit amongst our kind.We alight from royal skyrealm;warm blood pumps through purple hearts.Respite from our godly duties,necks entwined amongst the reeds. What a wonderful image…
Tao Talk 