like dawn you crept in to mend these cracks with golden light this vessel again fit to hold a promise fulfilled with love’s elixir drinking in brightest noon, thirsting as we entwined in toasts day waned and midnight fell, our restored cups clattering evermore breaking our once cupped hearts into red glittering shards that left…
Category: love
Valentines Day Feature — Three Roses
Happy Valentine’s Day All I’ve been trying to decide what angle to approach Valentines Day in my writing today. Valentines Day is a iconic celebration of love between two people. Not everyone has the blessings of being in reciprocal love with another person. It’s difficult not to feel like you’re missing out on this day…
Thursday Inspiration 43 — free foxes
Rex and Velma had known each other since birth, being born in cages next to each other at the fur farm. Back then they didn’t have names, only plastic tags with numbers stapled into their ears the moment they left their mothers’ wombs. Farmer John had fox farming down to a science, and kindness played…
Too Beautiful (and dao) not to share
Here is another one of those random stumble-acrosses while looking for something else on youtube. In this clip, Stephen Colbert tells how he met his wife. This, my friends, is a piece of magic.
“I’d Have You Anytime,” by George Harrison
“I’d Have You Anytime” is a song written by George Harrison and Bob Dylan, released in 1970 as the opening track of Harrison’s first post-Beatles solo album, All Things Must Pass. The pair wrote the song at Dylan’s home in Bearsville, near Woodstock in upstate New York, in November 1968. Its creation occurred during a…
dVerse — Sestina — Mists of Indigo
“Just Before Dawn” stumbling through realms of red doubting sight of morning’s orange buoyed by kindness’ bright yellow moments of respite in fields of green a will of iron drowning in regret’s blue return again to mists of indigo a traveler, searching through indigo crystal hums with songs of red you, love, lying on wet…
The Life of a Simple Cobbler
Shoemaker At Work is a painting by Farideh Haghshenas Renaldo was a cobbler by trade, just like his father before him and his father before him. Renaldo had lived in the same town as his forbears. He went about his daily activities with a certain comfort. There was a dearth of surprises in Renaldo’s life,…
Tao-Talk 