dVerse — Quadrille 117 — Waltzing with Fractals

What are yeabiding ingredientin fractal mirrors?What secrets fundmental meander?What makes sunrisea cherished friend?Where do souls plug in? And why?How waltz we with amoeba and stars?What stays when passthis bag of bonesbeyond the dust?   top image information:  The repeating patterns in a snowflake are a classic example of beautiful, geometric fractals. Now MIT scientists have…

dVerse — OLN — Gone

Gone Gazing out, a stripped landscape gazes back. Houseplants, relieved, grateful to be in, still grieve. Garrulous jays, glass-muted, grouse at feeders fit for wrens. Ghosts of gatherings past haunt grey day; misted memories. image:  “November First,” by Andrew Wyeth Sanaa is today’s host for Open Link Night Live.

dVerse — Poetics 431 — Waiting

Waiting “Waiting is.” Heinlein once said. Well, anticipation suckswhen you’re waiting for signs ofwords, followed by actions, towelcome us back to living. Warm, strong arms and maskless smileswander, carefree, in my dreams.   image:  “Awaiting His Return,” by William Ladd Taylor (1854-1926) Laura Bloomsbury is today’s host for dVerse‘ Poetics.  Laura says:1A. Write a poem…

dVerse — Haibun Monday 94 — Summer Storm

The afternoon was sunny but the sky was a different cast of yellow than usual. The shade of yellow that portends a storm, weak with an orange-y shade of green to it. All there was to do was wait. There in the distance, a deep rumbling, as a bear or a dinosaur might make when…

dVerse — MTB 227 — Angels Near

Once peery twinkles, now opaque orbs. Ears batten, echoed messengers. Loved ones murmur denouement. Angels’ whooshes take me home. Image:  “Angel Wings and Heaven,” by Sherri’s of Palm Springs. Frank J. Tassone is today’s host of dVerse‘ Meet the Bar.  Frank says: Let us write our own Jisei. Write a haikai (haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka,…

dVerse — MTB 227 — Still

  Feathers flash — then thump.Is the chickadee stunned; orsomething more final?In the morning, still she lies;Night hunters left her intact.   Frank J. Tassone is today’s host of dVerse‘ Meet the Bar.  Frank says:Let us write our own Jisei. Write a haikai (haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, Gogyohka) or haikai-esque poem that reflects on imminent…

dVerse — quadrille 116 — The Ten Thousand Things

Each atom, mote of possibility;synthesized, chargedpuzzle pieceswithin metaphysical context; aspects ofa time-space-dimensional continuum, simultaneously borning and graving, in perpetuity. I’m a daisy,a tree,a cloudburst,an ocean. I’m a song, a laugh,a scream, an idea. I’m sentient dust.   image link here Learn more about the 10,000 things here. De Jackson is today’s host of dVerse’ quadrille…