still fight despitea world of tearsstill fightinvest in lightdetach from fearsdespitehuman tends to frightof looking into mirrorsstill fightsoul’s blightagainst vampyrsdespitedearth of brightheart bruised by cavalierstill fightwith grace-infused mightwith faith in mercy’s seerdespitestill fight I loosely modeled this after Henley’s poem, “Invictus.” Also Maya Angelou’s, “Still I Rise.” Villanelle form Dora is today’s host of dVerse’…
Category: music
dVerse Q214 — Buffet
BuffettOur first date:you, egg foo yung;I, bang bang shrimp.Our palates different,yet we merried well.We bathed in bananasplits; yet can lifebe one big dessert?We buffeted until best used by; nothingleft but the tumsand some toothpicks. Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Punam would like us to write a 44-word poem using the word, bang.
Hiatt’s (and Mike Porter’s,) “Tennessee Plates”
image link Since blue-tooth is out AGAIN in the car, I’ve been listening to CD’s, including, “Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan?,” which is neither a tribute to Peter Frampton nor recorded in Japan. You know the origin of the title by now (if you don’t please look it up.) The live album was released in…
FFF 53 — Beatles ’64 (2024)
Finished watching this fifteen minutes ago, on Disney+, which I get “free” as part of a phone package. Rating 10/10 in capturing the mania of that tour. So many good archival footage of photos and video, interviews with “the boys,” and interviews with those who were at at least one of their concerts. Also interviews…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Niched
NichedAs meat puppets deteriorate towhere the end is nigh, we fly.Cyber-medical upload centerssiphon us while electric sparksstill crackle, into titanium-glassflash drives. Tiny-coffined, ourfamily pods shell out for one dayof resurrection each year.Fearful and careless call it zombie palacea place where dusteds attend year-round;for each, an annual androidal dance.Columbarium ash plants our treesalong sweeping forest hills,…
Doodads — 2 pics from the past week and a song
This is a pic taken of sunset a few days ago. I thought it was pretty. The next pic is my newest plant project. I removed a couple of lobes from the prickly pear cactus, have let the cut end dry out well, and yesterday planted them in a mix of perlite, gravel, and planting…
Halloween Shivers Playlist
Happy Halloween! I put a spooky playlist together.
Tao-Talk 