image link Plots and RollsThe carnival anchorstemporarily on a city plot just behind wherethe brewery is built.It’s where we book clubidiots (book reference)discuss plots while carnies maneuver too.Inside, they roll barrelswhile we roll theories outabout, _Anxious People_;outside the ferris wheelrolls and rolls to sunset. Melissa is today’s host for dVerse’ Poetics. Melissa wants us to…
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dVerse — Prosery — Polar Dark
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. From, “Take This Waltz” by Leonard Cohen Polar Dark When summers brushed our skin and winters pulled us close, sun and snow shone sparkly and clean, servants of love’s season. When autumn stayed, dysfunctional limbo, a gloom of weighing and…
dVerse — MTB — All Belong
All Belong Grandbaby’s too young! Pre-school is too long! Care-free days too short! Let her be awhile, running in the fields. Let her be a child (with) [not student with rules] unencumbered smiles! Sleepless grandma frets. Soundless voice with soothe: “Try to understand; impotent upsets waste your energy. Incorporate sense: all belong to world.” Acceptance…
dVerse — Q205 — Quadrille to Sulfur Cosmos
Sulfur cosmos, bright constellationed suns, call to bees’, butterflies’, hums’ of hunger to slake on pollenous, nectared sums.They give, even through rainstorms, until their now-husked offers have no more. Spent, sparse, dark brown spikes callme, beg to be jarred until spring church. De Jackson (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants…
24 SSPC 41 (3rd week) The Summer Solstice (June 21 – July 6) Geshi — seox form series and dVerse OLN 366
i. summer celebrationsummer bringsinherent celebrationwhen grandfather sun smilesupon his childrenreaching for hima green loveii. swimming poolsparkling flirtshe ripples cool promisesto steal your heat and sweatfrom grandfather sunplunge into herrefreshmentiii. watermelongreen-white eggiconic picnic desserton kitchen counter waitsparched palates are quenchedby its openedsacrifice Seox series Colleen Chesebro is the host of TankaTuesday. Colleen gave us some possible…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Arise! (for Kamala)
Arise! (for Kamala) I’m not real hyped-up on the 2024 Olympics. Too many other things on my mind. Like America floundering with the shadow of fascism. Like innocent women calling 911 and being shot in the face by psycho cops. Like genocide taking place overseas with our financial blessings. Like Russia waiting, rabid vultures. I…
dVerse MTB/Form — Ballata — Summer Water
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…
