pic taken 040424 To My Bluebird LoverHearken now to bluebirds on the wingMemory of summer’s love in mirthSeason twinkled bright and knew no dearthFrom each sigh, each stroke, each peak we’d wringSacred wine we’d sipped from gifts of earthHearken now to bluebirds on the wingMemory of summer love in mirthKnow that I will visit you…
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dVerse Poetics — Infamous Nazi Artist Emil Nolde ekphrastic and commentary
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserves their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word…
dVerse — Prosery Monday — Old Red
Make of it a parkaFor your soul.— Alice Walker, fromBefore you knew you owned it Old Red Old Red lives for death. He hovers around villages at dark, urging sober to take just one sip, urging lonely to take in snakes, urging fists instead of hugs. His first memory is of crawling in a cold…
dVerse OLN 378 Tingled
TingledYou tingle meas you fall.Beam-fluttered,I shiver in yourtextured patterns.You come to meas you will,with your silverpuffed friendswho lie, theirdark smirkslove’s rebuke.Despite, I runnel you,now slinking under crust of ice. I thought of love between snow and weak-winter sun. Björn is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Björn gives us an optional prompt:So as…
dVerse Poetics VD humor
image link Farty HeartyCharmin* or charming?wiping or swiping*?both needed products?Septic or sepsis?tanks or antibiotics?evacuation or fulfilling?Both bodily functionsof will and the willing.Waste or lust?Shit or grocery store roses?Both soul-empty,like Valentine’s prison quicky.*Notes:*Charmin is a brand of toilet paper.*swiping screens on Tindr, a dating app*see Dark History of Valentines Day video Sanaa is today’s host for…
dVerse Q217 Zing(s)
iStupendous, ama-zingmy eyeballs are gazingat colors of braising bright palette of praisingas white does its phasingout.As crystals are going, spring groundwork is showingabove and belowingwith thawing and glowingwith mudding and growingas water is flowingaround. spring bunny iizing is the thingputs sing in songwrong in rightputs length in longthe bat in eyelashesmorse in dot-dashesputs the cunei…
dVerse — MTB — Winter Sparrowlets
Winter Sparrowletsifairy feathers, snowy starlightshackled inside crackled blue ice former spacenaut, fallen treasureearthly yellow friendly night lightsurprised winter walker’s pleasuresnowy starlight, fairy feathers iinightly walking, winter gardenpathlights shining on the watervoices echo as we’re talkingbouncing off a landscape spartandispels outside darkness stalkingwinter garden, nightly walking iiiwinter beacon, silent singercomfort us when long nights lingerinduce hope,…
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