dVerse — Quadrille Monday 135 — Monster Truck

Monster truck thumpin’groovin’ down the road.Rock and rollin’ treadson a raised frame strikesdread to warm-blooded crossers – soon dead. Suicide butterflies litter its gut-spatteredchrome grill; bits fill the tarvey.Smooshed squirrel crow bait waits; caws echo in its wake.     image:  “Monster Truck Grave Digger 1,” by Jeelan Clark De Jackson (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s…

dVerse — OLN 299 — Fall Out

In the Rain, by Vincent Van Gogh (1882) We call it fall above all because of the leaves leaving the trees; Yet also because the temperature leaves what are now the eighties. Most of all it’s because we fall out of love with summer sun’s radioactive please. Grace is today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link…

dVerse — (Oral) Poetics — Rain Man

Ingrid is today’s host for dVerse’ Poetics.  Ingrid says:Begin to compose a poem without putting pen to paper: you can say the words in your head, or repeat them out loud. Record them, if you wish, as an aid to memory. Try to complete the poem as far as possible without writing it down. Think…

dVerse — Haibun Monday — Back to School?

Ignoranus in Michigan Last year at this time we wondered if there would be a vaccine to protect adults from hospitalization, lingering death, and possible chronic health effects from catching Covid-19. Schools prudently shut down face-to-face classrooms and went virtual – and proved it was a viable temporary solution for educating students. This year, a…

dVerse — MTB — Solilo-Quoi on August 26, 2021

new sunflower video, taken during my “stroll outside”   As I sit in cool air after a stroll outsidethe steam rises from my frame like it does from a pile of dung in winter.I thank my lucky stars, a.k.a. “Fates”per Henley about his “unconquerable soul.”It feels like a reward of sortsfor having survived so many…

dVerse — Poetics — please see beyond the veil

Turkeytail Fungus Feel free to walk any woodland pathUntil you see tell-tale rounded capNever sure what specifics will be:Gilled, shelved, clung, lurking; short, tall, or wee.Indispensible kingdom cousins. Many times shy, they hide their planetary-matted panorama;Not brutes like fauna nor flashy like flora, fruits their brave flower.Quietly they act as finisher; then begins’ ways they…

dVerse — Quadrille 134 — Get on Board

Oh baby girl how I heart you,a timelessness transporter to grace divine. Wrinkles disappear, gravity lightens with your toothless smile. Pitted stone weeps, chest’s choke cranked, chugging on the joy line. Your coo delivers cool healing to all passengers.We’re at our destination.   NOTE:  The top image is not my granddaughter.   Image link here. De…