summer water moves dynamicsun-warmed from spring’s thawobedient to seasoned lawscompared to winter blues, it’s manicsummer water moves dynamic sheeting boulders as it falls,tinkling streamlets into pondsbuoys fish, all things aquaticsummer water moves dynamic light plays over surface, drawsmirrored ripples worth applauseintegral to soul’s choreographicsummer water moves dynamic A poem about “summer water” could get quite…
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dVerse — OLN365 — Reciprocity
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions. –Pablo Neruda, from The Wide Ocean Reciprocity If you were to give … me … fruit of your gifts and destructions I would give you the same — but the choice is, as always, yours.. Remember one-way streets…
dVerse — Prosery Monday — Karma’s Little Helper
every day unfurls as it must–from Oolong, by Adrienne Su Karma’s Little Helper She sweats on the front porch swing, listening to wind swish treetops, catching whiffs of lavender. It is summer’s zenith, when green screams its loudest. Sunlight roars yellow. The palette’s remainder supports in dulcet murmurs. Reverie carries her to a summer when…
dVerse — MTB — Played and Constrained
“The Garden of Eden” by Shan Jiang Played and ConstrainedAfter the set-up,the first guilt trip,chafing fig leaves,Eve’s cheeks blushedat Adam’s first purposeful rising;joins in with paw and spawn.Joys yelled to Heavenin union’s orgasmic dawn.Original abode,a peaceable kingdomclimate-controlled;dwarved under mighty boughs,no concept of outside,above, or below.After being given God’s boot,they barefooted blindly after Crow.Generations multiplied and…
dVerse — Poetics — Sarah Poem
Love as hard as you can. Write the stuff that matters to you, but also, maybe stuff that doesn’t matter too much – just have fun. Life is going to throw all sorts of things at you – remember that the small, beautiful moments can carry as much weight as the big terrible ones. And…
dVerse — Q203 — music for today
Freshwater crabs? Who knew? Thirteen-hundred known species sidle tropic and sub-tropic habitats. Unlike marine crabs, their larval stage passes inside of the egg. They hatch as juveniles, under maternal care. Endemic means risk for them. clicking castanets, pooled among nymph and minnow, oblivious, play Pom Pom Crab image link Merril is today’s host for dVerse’…
dVerse OLN 364 — Each Side of the Veil
Each Side of the VeilThere is a realm of death and lifethat long has dwelt each side of veilwhere midnight falling waits on one;where owls glide moon’s beams, not the sun’swhere breath softs and loss of logic begunwe creep to cross to dreamland’s trails.Before we know, we’re on the other,altered stated, senses priming,mid-way adventured, directionless,a…
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