Curled in moonglow, warm-blooded family Breathe deeply, chests heaving frost Melting mallow marrow, fur against fur Thump-echoing thumps, living drums thrum night’s resonant hum Crystals crunch time; slinking latecomer Crawls in, yawns. Consensus is that Feathered dinner can wait until breakfast; Dreaming one dream. Note: The title of my quadrille is taken from…
Category: dverse
dVerse — prosery #7 — A Mother’s Love…
I watched a metallic spheroid rise in the distance over the lip of the arroyo. A shiny dime in a green-blue cloudless sky, the sun’s position behind and below it gave its outline a golden, mesmerizing aura. Sound below broke the spell when a calf bawled to her mother halfway up the ridge. Not…
#Haikai Challenge #116 (12/7/19): Cold Moon and dVerse OLN #256
Twelfth night December’s Iced globe – blue light broadcast Above and below Cold moon bounces cross-country Nature’s wordless winter song In long night’s silence Winter’s moon is small comfort To cold loneliness Two castaways, far apart, Look up and share a warm dream Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haiki Challenge. …
dVerse — apostrophe — Cool Relations
Dear Snow, who comes and goes at whim, Dangling, tangling scarves here and there, Must you be so fickle and play until you stay? Perhaps this is why, when bundled, I love crunching you beneath my boots? Puny hairless human, how could I not try to toy with beings so ill-equipped for joy? Never once…
dVerse — Wordless
Laura is today’s host for dVerse. Laura says: The challenge is to choose ONE or MORE from THE LIST of words BELOW and include it/them in the body and/or title of your poem. If possible, add a soupçon of hopefulness for Hope is the message in this first advent week! ageless ~ boundless ~ breathless ~…
dVerse — quadrille — Coloring Musical December
one-dimensional snowflakes, nesting dolls, ornaments, gingerbread houses, sleighs with ponies, children building snowpeople, trees with red-winged bobbles, sleds pointing downhill, skates going “8”s Hynde’s dirge Ukrainian carol Run-DMC’s Hollis Carey’s want Bing-Bowie’s boy Eartha’s baby Kinks-Elvis father blue Warning: Multi-sensory gestures may evoke spirit. De Jackson (aks WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse. De says:…
dVerse — Sylvia & Ted — zebra mussels
Seafaring stowaways Dumped by Careless bilge pumps Once foreign, home Quiet freshwater invasion Clams now refugees Tiniest zebras Roaming submerged plains OCD to clean – and glue Small, razor sharp Shell seeds White putty insides Sifting creepers Scour water Green to clear Herons-adored A traveler’s banquet Easy pickins Reside underside Driftwood hide Washed-up skeletons…
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