AUGUST Absolute promise of softeningUnder kinder sunGathering empathy as it travelsUkulele sunsets coolerSummer by month’s end wanedTowards Autumn’s harvest days.
Category: acrostic
dVerse — OLN 410 — Summer Sirens
Summer SirensSweet seed-speckled sirensunder star or satellite compose juicy notes;merry among roundish lined fans, straw-slept,mesmerizing each sense when they call –even ears sigh in mmm’s anticipation –red hearts with green flouncy caps. Soft, temperate zephyrtells children its time torun along rows, eacha carton in tow,with intent –berries hidden, to find, toeat here and there, thenresisting,…
dVerse Q241 — Heaven’s Rose
Heaven’s Rose Flowers, open, spread your joy. Love seeds plant, germinate, our prayer needs merged with faith. Sprouted field emerge neath warmth, resilient we reach yet soft, healing yield blooms, be listeners, organic oeuvre music. Sweet melody rise as an aerial fragrance, perfume reaching heaven’s nose. De, aka whimsygizmo, is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille…
dVerse — Poetics Monday — A memoir
A memoir Her silhouette and cane familiar from the back,a lady of many social and creative talentsput here, today of all days. Interrupt convo,possibly being rude to both, to smile, say hi;you would have seen the room light up then. After our brief reunion before joining fitness classcheery updates that end with an invitation back,convincing…
Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompt 75 — Things that inspire
Inspiration I’m inspired by selfless acts of kindness, not by hidden agendas. Seeing others performing amazing physical feats of skill or training inspires me to try harder. Realizing there are angels, both seen and unseen, that step in when needed inspires me. To know I matter. One is all. Now is always. Esther Chilton is…
dVerse Q221 — Arrival
ArrivalEach arrival you push yournull rival away, timing right;call far, bring birdsong;hew dull brown to green;awake asleep; dandelionsnavigate lion winds; puffstessellate landscape tomatch cloud-patched sky.Energized, we frolic, ournetherworld forgotten; youtreasure, Sacred You, Spring! De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a 44-word poem using the…
dVerse — OLN365 — Reciprocity
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions. –Pablo Neruda, from The Wide Ocean Reciprocity If you were to give … me … fruit of your gifts and destructions I would give you the same — but the choice is, as always, yours.. Remember one-way streets…
