The great limb of one of the front willows had most of itself cut up by a friendly neighbor yesterday. It didn’t take him long with his chainsaw. He insisted he wanted nothing for doing it, which makes me suspicious, but maybe I’m paranoid. He wanted to carry the logs and piles to the brush…
Category: nature
dVerse — quadrille — Waiting Birds Begin to Rise
image link Merril is the host of dVerse today. Merril says: *Write a poem, of any style in 44 words, not including the title. Include the word or derivative of the word, “rise”. My offering today is a quadrille in triolet form. Waiting Birds Rise As northern air grows warm, Waiting birds begin to rise….
dVerse — Quadrille — Aced it
De is the host of dVerse today. De says: Greetings, my poetical friends. How’s your crazy April going? Are you writing a poem a day? Are you acing it? Well, for today’s Quadrille, I want to give you the chance to do just that – ace your poem. Unless it’s your first time here at the…
dVerse — Villanelle — Heaven Reborn
Sansevieria in bloom, taken 2009 After getting some much-appreciated feedback, I took a look at the poem. Here’s the first revision: When sun shines, heaven is reborn. Faces turn skyward, spirits leap Warmth for living, blessings adorn Spring’s voice sings through green colored horn Flora! Fauna! lilies and peeps When sun shines, heaven is…
Home of the brave
image link Fandango’s FOWC is division, the Word Challenge of the Day is empty, Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are tortilla, vault, riverbed, and Teresa’s Story Starter Challenge prompt is “I’m sure it was all a dream.” Vanna started her morning with a breakfast of coffee and a corn tortilla with fresh avocado on it,…
Dream haibun
image link It was actually earlier this morning when I was in the state between sleep and waking that I dreamed this, but the haiku was not in word, but in visual form, so would that make it a vision more than a dream? Not sure. Anyway, I received the image of a piece…
Enchanter
A Naiad by John William Waterhouse, 1893; a water nymph approaches the sleeping Hylas. Fandango’s FOWC is meter, the Word of the Day Challenge is elemental, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are charisma, guacamole, rose . Today I took mythological characters – and the picture I found at wikipedia – and built a…
Tao-Talk 