image link I chose Maya Angelou’s (profound) poem to pull inspiration from: Harlem Hopscotch By Maya Angelou One foot down, then hop! It’s hot. Good things for the ones that’s got. Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down. Since you black, don’t stick around. Food is…
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Movies, Movies, Movies! #24 — February 11, 2020
Motherless Brooklyn (2019) Starring: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Leslie Mann, Michael K. Williams, Fisher Stevens, Dallas Roberts, Josh Pais, Ethan Suplee, Robert Wisdom Director: Edward Norton Synopsis: Understated big movie about political corruption and long-buried secrets. Edward Norton stars and directs. In a nice bit…
Joaquin Phoenix acceptance speech best actor win at 2020 Academy Awards
Listening to Joaquin an idea seeped in, a question, what if Joaquin has been working as an actor towards a win so he could have the world watching to give this speech. This is one of those for the books. In a strange way, I almost see Joaquin funhouse-mirroring the character he won his Oscar…
#Haikai Challenge #125: hawk (taka)
Spring’s sun melts snow Hawk’s shadow warns too late — Seeds left uneaten. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of you choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the hawk (taka) This is my second attempt at a…
dVerse — quadrille 97 — Breathe the Stars
“Essential oils are like little packages of positivity.” – Valerie Ann Worwood, from The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, 25th Anniversary Edition (2016) Build dreampaths that are Blessed, mindful; balancing Hills and holes along the way, A journeyed setting of the stage For living to bloom. Essential oils of geranium, grapefruit, Petitgrain and…
What do you see? #16 — air and sea see saws
Reflections by: Yunus Emre Uzun After the rock rolled away from the cave entrance and Jesus emerged, everyone saw him ascend to the heavens. His believers have faith that one day he will descend from heaven and take the faithful back to heaven with him. What no humans saw was later that night Jesus came…
Sunday afternoon winter poetry
Yesterday morning brought a red-tailed hawk close to the bird feeders. Only when her head swiveled to and fro and when she repositioned herself on the sapling was she brought to life. It seemed she was willing to risk detection at a chance to eat a warm meal. Perhaps she preferred an unsuccessful hunt to…
Tao-Talk 