For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May –From “May Day” by Sara Teasdale I’ve fallen on black days. My ears are deaf to birdsong; nose unmoved by the scent of hyacinth; the soft crush of early strawberries between my molars untasted. Mid-Spring breezes skim over…
Category: poetry
Tanka — Witch Hazels’ Spring Gathering
Ten Hazels draw close in a loose circle, waiting for moonlight’s soft spell; silver bark sprouts white tendrils who search for kin in the dark. I ordered ten witch hazel bare root shrubs over a month ago as part of a fundraiser annual plant sale for the local conservation club. I picked them up on…
#TSM 209 — Limbo, or Black Days
Image source Akilter, lying down — even as you see me upright – a blank in kelp bed, fathoms below, asleep, await. My fate unknown as yet. Will it be angel’s lift that buoys to sunrise? Or fey stones, that weigh and sink beleaguered, deflated organs of light? My sight occluded, my guesses gone; laced,…
God’s Servant
yellow like the sun god made bananas to serve wrinkled faces smile image link
dVerse — Poetics — each thing falls away
at first I refused to believe overboard, swept out in the storm; wee dawn, on the beach, inert form I wailed in the throes of my grief your unwilling, early depart at whim of a god with no heart I vowed in exchange for relief if God roll back Time’s Tide and take moi instead,…
News: Poetry accepted for publication
NEWS FLASH. I received an email yesterday with the following message: Congratulations! Your poems were accepted for publication to the Anthology Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women, called in this document The Anthology. Gabriela Marie Melton is the editor, Ingrid Wilson (Experiments in Fiction) will publish, and cover design by Nick Reeves. I’m…
dVerse — Quadrille 150 — Final Farewell
image link Her living lingered, her funeral brief; children scattered, peers long gone home. Ghosts’ welcomes await her release from the bronze urn. She’s sprinkled along Spring thunderstorm’s wake, towards the lake. April sun’s comfort warms as it dries; her chalky residue remains, her final farewell. De Jackson, aka whimsygizmo, is today’s host for dVerse’…
