Bruce Cockburn As I was googling for a good song for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt, I came across a Spotify playlist with over 130 songs to celebrate Arbor Day. How could I not find a good’n? I sampled a good half of the ones not familiar to me and chose this one out…
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dVerse Q246 — Puppetized
(Epoch Producing Corporation) PuppetizedWatching old movies:black-white flickers totrain pupils; see pale-skinned indignities asunquestioned status quo,eyes fix postured macho,not swerved to objects;props serving patriarchy,downcast eyes, smilesor not, dependent ploysto be toyed with, stringedautomatons, machinesserving sociopaths’ greed. Punam is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Punam wants us to write a poem using some form of the…
#SLS — “Grandma’s Hands,” by Bill Withers
Album cover to Just As I Am by w:Bill Withers, w:Sussex Records, 1971. The above album sleeve features a photograph of Withers next to a brick building, supposedly the factory that he was working in at the time the album was recorded, where he installed airplane toilets. He wears a yellow T-shirt and jeans and holds a lunchbox. It…
A2Z 2026 Oshun
Oshun (West Africa) Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, wealth, prosperity and beauty, and the Osun River, in the Yoruba religion. According to the teachings of West African and West African-derived religions, the orishas are spirits sent by the supreme creator, Olodumare, to assist humanity and to teach them to…
#SLS — new artist to me — Julianna Riolino — Macca cover: “Every Night”
I first posted on Julianna Riolino in October 2025 after hearing her on Spotify’s Release Radar. I love the smooth graveliness of her voice. I like the passion with which she sings. I like her songwriting abilities. I like how she cut her teeth in at least one excellent band before deciding to go solo. …
#SLS — Richard Thompson (April 3) “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”
Richard Thompson 6-21-07 at a Brooklyn Celebrates concertin Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY photographed by Anthony Pepitone (CC-BY-SA) Rumor and Sigh album cover Richard Thompson OBE (b. 4/3/49) is an English songwriter, musician (primarily a guitarist,) singer and record producer. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for…
WMM 2026 Day 31 — Hania Rani
Hania Rani, Credit: Photo: Elizabeth Gillis/NPR If I were to describe music, I think for me it’s a mix of subconsciousness and something beyond human perception – an elusive, fleeting fabric that can move us through time. — from interview at Culture.PL Hania Rani (nee Hanna Raniszewska) (b. 9/5/90) is a Polish pianist, composer and singer. She was…
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