It starts small, like the tinkle of the cat’s collar. It trembles as the flipped blinds show a row of light. It rises with the stack of iced snow on the bird bath. It trickles with water falling from the aquarium filter. It gurgles with this morning’s coffee pot promise. It flits with house finches…
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Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard and dVerse OLN
Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:•Still Cold (yokan)/New…
dVerse — Poetics — Winter Rainbow
Winter Rainbow What do you call the color of sunlight on snow?A whiter white with flecks of sparkling prisms?Bright silver with contrasting greys of depth?Where corkscrewed plow has churned, itlooks like chopped gunmetal-colored cement. Fast-moving rust jerks, robotic in her searchfor milquetoast bits of kernels in mostly emptysunflower shells. Reds hit and run above herin…
dVerse — Prosery 21 — Sailor’s Song
I went out to the hazel wood / Because a fire was in my head.–from The Song of Wandering Aengus, by William Butler Yeats Leather felt strange on my feet again after six months, mirroring the feeling of stepping on dry land again. Circling gulls seemed to laugh at me as I navigated through the…
The Sunday Muse 147 — Inanna Blue
“Indigo Sky Mares” by Laurel Burch. Click HERE for her website. Whims and spoils of heaven’s toyingtake their toll on kings and queens.Beams of light can be cold comfortas we flit amongst our kind.We alight from royal skyrealm;warm blood pumps through purple hearts.Respite from our godly duties,necks entwined amongst the reeds. What a wonderful image…
dVerse — MTB — Blueberry Muffins on a Winter Afternoon
A bright blanket of snow shrouds the ground today asan anemic yellow sun deepens shadows near snowbanks.Cradled muffins with blueberries picked in summer bake, their seraphic commit drifting from room to room.Mlady and Dotty are situated in their usual spotsnear the slider door, surveilling cardinals and fox squirrels.I pour a cup of fresh coffee and…
dVerse — Poetics 439 — Grace with Soul
Light micrographs of Cladosporium sphaerospermum NRRL 8131 Black tunes will save the world.You heard right. Melanin singsgospel waves attuned to death,and twists them to sweet life.Can I get an amen? Amen! Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a fungi that employs radiosynthesis. It eats radiation, where in the process the melanin in its body converts…
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