Facebook is so often a waste of time, but sometimes it comes through with a gem. I found this share at Big Trees Michigan page. The Strangest Trees Grow in East Hampton: At the Folly Tree Arboretum, a natural museum curated by an artist with a historian’s eye, every oak, magnolia and sycamore has its…
Category: poetry
first food 2023
I’m eating a stir fry made from the above veggies I fresh picked from the plants today (except for the blackberries, which I called dessert and ate first.) The peppers were grown from the 5 seeds I got from the library. Nothing tastes better than food you’ve grown from a seed. Nature is generous and…
dVerse MTB — Swimming Fish (Imayo)
Wandering through (long-gone) mall, many moons ago,I happened on two hippies; upon their velvetcloth morphology of jade, many-hued polishedcarvings, reasonably priced; one fish swam away. Laura is today’s host of dVerse’ Meet the Bar. Laura says (here paraphrased:)Write an Imayo form poem about a rock in celebration of International Rock Day.
Tanka Tuesday 328 — Lake Michigan Summer (ekphrastic micropoetry)
“Sun, Sand, & Sea”by Terri Webster Schrandt Sol white-out blinds, penetrates with rays of life and death. Sand bathes, swims, and flops out to air dry; then turns to scour skin. Lake, vast watering dish dragonfly dart from spray deer swim to drown ticks. Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says: 🖋️…
dVerse Poetics — One Word: Pulchritudinous (beautiful)
Cronenberg’s Ear Man I’m known by all yet grokked through ten k souls. Near shell that glows or sticky goo insides, Each soul is tweaked by different charms’ extolls. A cache of coins, you seek me, priceless gold; To some my haunt is never worth my shine. I’m known by all yet grokked through ten…
