through scarf of feathered boughsa path, portal of stout knotty pinesa line along splashing gurgles deep pools with dazzling glints spellbound invisible frogs watch as we, salvage from a broken world, in benumbed state, stop to channelthe magic current of healing connect bear snuffle undergrowth for grubsas does nibble new grass, obliviousto returning visitors, welcome…
Category: poetry
When Love Finds You
Don’t ever go looking for love. It might find you. You can’t control who will bring it. You can sacrifice yourself to it, and maybe that’s ok. Who is to say what a life’s function should be? Is what or who you might be be enough to turn it away? It means being left with…
full moon 060223
hazy honey texturedefies my expectationsmarble stuck in tar Last night’s full moon was very different than the moon the night before. It was taken around the same time of night/morning. The mosquitos were swarming me so I couldn’t stay out to take more than 2 pics.
Doodads — moon and yard 0601 and 060223
Last night at 2 a.m., while binge-watching, “Alone,” moonlight snuck in through the blinds. I looked out and said, ooh, I need to get out there and get a shot of that. It’s the first clouds I’ve seen in probably weeks. It was still cloudy this morning, but it’s more hazy than anything now. sky…
Tanka Tuesday 322 and dVerse OLN 340 — Turtle Spirit
Turtle collage I did a few years ago The turtle totem wisdom teaches us about walking our path in peace and sticking to it with determination and serenity. Slow moving on earth, yet also incredibly fast and agile in water, those who have the turtle as totem or spirit animal may be encouraged to take…
RWG 11 — For my uncle, shot down over the North Sea in WWII
North Sea When you heard whistles, yells, and felt the shells pierce the wings and hull, what did you wonder as parachute’s grace rocked you towards inevitable clash with Northern Sea’s finishing freeze splash? Did you embrace chivalrous? Macho? Scared? Maybe yours were no confident, steeled, screaming lips. Maybe relief gave your imminent non-being a…
dVerse — Poetics — Shadowed
“Portrait of Sylvia Schou” (1911) painted by Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937) Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion In weighted hues of benefit Surreptitious and forbidden Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion Repeat offense? First commission? One cost of social tarriffing Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion In weighted hues of benefit triolet form Lillian is today’s host…
Tao Talk 