photo taken at my massage therapist’s office December 2021 When the day comes where soldiers do yoga instead of killing we may at last heave a sigh of relief: peace on earth.
Category: poetry
Doodads — Big Christmas Trees 2021
This year two neighbors not too far from here decided to light up the trees in their front yards with lights. It’s taken me this long to finally get pictures of them. I stopped on my way to the library and snapped them. Again, the new phone comes through for me with the night setting…
Shay’s Word Garden Word List #6 (Laura Marling)
“Dust in the Wind,” by Kent Whitaker Entombed between bullshit and holy ring mantras soft with the peculiar dust of the wounded. Their blues scour the bell of my soul with their red sand. Shay is the host of Shay’s Word Garden. Shay says: Hi everyone, it’s me with your weekly word list poetry prompt….
jar + water + light = night magic
I keep a mason jar with water at my bedside to fill the vaporizer with in winter. I also have gotten used to using a small low-watt led light as a hand-held night light as I go through my bedtime ritual of turning on the fan, filling the vaporizer, lighting incense, turning on the heating…
Mourning Dove Solstice (tanka)
Mourning doves snugglein boughs of soft pine needles —bedtime comes early.Solstice soft moonlight gleams onfluffed feathers and diamond white. top image linkbottom image link
TSM 191 — You’re Mine Today
She served us hot tea and cold sesame cakeWe sipped, chewed, and talked, with a view of the lakeThe waves blurred. She cawed, “My dear, come and lay down.”I woke in her nest, now dressed bright in her gown.I struggled to sit and found wings ‘stead of arms.I struggled to speak, instead cackled and barked.My…
dVerse — MTB — Kwansaba Praise Poem
left to right: grandma at age 72; grandma holding my younger son; grandma holding me as a baby; grandma and grandpa one Christmas. To Grandma Her name means little free man. A little woman, she was not free, in tether to home, ills, and pills; yet clan flocked to her oasis for coffee, cards, laughs;…
Tao-Talk 