it is the season pepper fruits begin to bloom hottest time of the year it is the season when sun brightens, greens deepen the bees get heavy pepper fruits bloom yellow cautions and red flags bananas and ghosts hottest time of the year white blossoms bursting fireworks in summer’s swelter
Category: poetry
dVerse — Quadrille 161 — Monster
Tracks tell our tales, bits, clues of worlds, endless intersects, maps through time; fossilized, covered, interred crimes unearthed, stinking, weepy confessions nobody wants to hear. Yet, in ink’s cloy one’s morbid shadow peers, an uncalled lurid alliance never dared spoken for amygdalic animal fear. top image link Merril is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. …
POPO2022 day 3 — trees
once upon a time they may have footed about but now they stand, still once upon a time they walked tall, leaves shimmering happy, green nomads they footed about ’til every place was seen, their kingdom surveyed but now they stand, still digging deep with mirrored roots, our friendly neighbors
POPO2022 day 2 — libra
fragrant tug of war where victory and defeat eternal stalemates fragrant tug of war entwined with thorned promises lost in the jungle victory, defeat e’er poised on a pointed tip joy, despair wobbles eternal stalemates given no choice but to play bittersweet torment
TSM230, Friday Writings 46, and earthweal’s OLW 138 — gone but not gone
Artwork photography by Antonio Mora I. The first of summer, when roses bloom, I saw you there in oak’s leafy shadow, a still, towering trunk, transfixed. I hurried along, now shivered, my hand a-tremble as key sought to impart salvation. It is now autumn’s end, and oak stands bare. Your form is gone, your presence…
POPO2022 — Day 1 — mushrooms
each cap gives a nod chitin kingdom’s noble realm transition’s castle each cap gives a nod acknowledgement of duty: transform death to life chitin kingdom’s realm’s subterranean networks flip night into day transition’s castle marches on yesterday’s grist to mill today’s bread
Tanka Tuesday — The Nature of Lightning — (troiku)
sparked veins of sky leaves glimpses of another place jungles fill heaven sparked veins of sky leaves backlit roadmaps, star rivers storm’s altered senses glimpse another place weather opens the portal petrichor perfume jungles fill heaven imagination flies free as wet wings lift us troiku form top image link Colleen is the host of Tanka…
Tao-Talk 