The edges of my garden curl along green fuzz, concrete, and stone. Its haphazard, organic growth is both playland and harvest zone; where ants climb and dragonflies wheel; where rainbow sways among today’s sky offering. Claudia Schoenfeld, one of the co-founders of dVerse, is today’s host for Poetics. We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of…
Category: fauna
Draw a Bird Day — July 8, 2021 — Eastern Bluebird male
Birds are icons across cultures serving as feathered pantheon of our attributes and emotions. Sorrows plummet on crow’s wings. Joy’s infusion in a bluebird’s sighting. The drawing is the first time I’ve used a youtube how-to video to draw anything. It works pretty well especially since it can be paused and replayed. The dimensions are…
Doodads — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly *and* bonus videos!
Since there will be 2 videos at the end and I’m tired, for now, there won’t be full-screen photos of these if you click on the captions. Let’s start with the pretty pictures (aka the good ones) These are the “bad” or not so great pics. Either the color was washed out, the bugs had…
minimalist photography and poetry — baubles of death
Clinging to life arebaubles of death; bright colorsforgotten sometimesbut never shaken. Slowly,we return to from where we came… Kate says if inspired by her nature photo to link to her page. I am, so….
dVerse — MTB — Trimeric form
Tall grass gone to seed dances with breeze,its final sways, a lively tawn in cloudless sky.A small engine revs, announcing last call,while bluebirds and dragonflies wait. Its final sways, a lively tawn in cloudless sky;still surprised at the length of its reprieve, iscontent with there being no standing tomorrow. A small engine revs, announcing last…
Lai Form — Proclamation
When cats are alert,light and shadow flirt,listenfor kingfisher blurts,echoes on ponds skirt.Glistenedsteel grey plumes assertself-crowned king of turf —frisson! Donna Matthews at DJ Ranch has asked for a Lai form poem.
dVerse — Quadrille 129 — Dragon Lover
What is this curiosity we have for winged, scaled worms called dragons? Proof that subterranean vole-bait may transform to soar at-will? Is it their new capriciousness to choose “scorched earth” that attracts? They still sleep in dark wet, for godsakes! Then I spied one… It’s not easily seen in the picture, but the shadow of…
Tao-Talk 