cold magic winter’sheavy blue gloombreeds ill under dark cloudsuntil startling white blankets fallwith cheer short days,where life craves light,season’s noc comes too soon;orange embers, imagined sun,brings warmth I walkto the mail boxin swirling wind-flowers;dainty dancing crystals grace eyelashes tunnelsarch across road,a winter wonderland!where moisture weaves its cold magicsnow globe pine boughsdroop dreadfullyin clinging heavy snowwith…
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dVerse — Prosery — train wreck
But that smile was the last smile To come upon her face. — Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham Lolita had been trained that being white and pretty gave her advantage — and that she was never to tell what she and daddy did in secret. She’d been raised from infancy by Ruth, who’d come to…
dVerse — MTB — If you want me to be honest
If You Want Me to be Honest April’s burst slumbers yet as I travel my slow-moving world. Each morning I make my way; Primordial, I shimmer. Datura, pale, mute blossom, listens in. Silly thought, I thought we had forever. To think I’ve waited for you. Take this clutter from my house, my psyche, and the…
dVerse — MTB — Brushing cobwebs from inkstone
Brushing cobwebs from inkstone Sol white-out blinds Beneath bluebird there’s no sun In garden dwells a human sage Red blossoms dangle Green cornstarch circle Chipping brown-furred critters love to dig showy Hazy honey texture Spider weaves in picnic pavilion corner’s pink-red sunset Canyon’s furry paw cups in golden light Your gaze, your golden eye fringed…
dVerse — Poetics — Your Faithful Hound
Your Faithful Hound Catch your scent upon the wind, it stirs my heat; Burning bright, a dog turned wolf, I range night sky, Sniff you out, star drunk, to where we always meet. Mystery. There is no sense. Do not ask why Comes this urge to go and fetch with earnest howl Fermented myst goblets…
dVerse — Q192 — Blue’s Pink
“Pink Bayou” by Stacey Strugatz I languish a dark lagoon, trapped in brackish waters, a sand bar desert from love. Gulls glide drafts and laugh at jokes without punchlines. Day fades to new moon tide whispers and laps its way; channel etched by dawn to swim blue’s pink again. Melissa is today’s host for dVerse’…
dVerse — OLN 353 — Pledge
Let There Always Be Light — Rebecca Elson Vervain sage incense thin reeds to ceiling sky. Kneeled bedside to pray: Let there always be light My anxious crawl to reve’s tempered breath’s scrawl, a fathomless, immutable pledge: there shall ever be. Top photo is by Maxim Sivyi Grace is today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link…
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