woodcut image, “Winter Sleep,” by Yumi Kawaguchi, from DogwoodStudioAlaska Snow embraces treeswho embrace winter aswinter embraces land. Land sleeps, a caveof cold-warm that cradles curled furred dreamers,cryo’ed reptiles, seeds. All seeds sleep. Some feed hearty plumed and scurried, pulsing with life despite inert season.Many wake to Spring bloom. [44 words] Merril is today’s…
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The Sunday Muse 146 — Mother’s Emissary
“Natural Woman” Digital Collage Art “Covid Creations” by Susie Clevenger Coy on a textured background she stands out in earthed muslin.Tansy & wild lily’s fragrant lips partas feathered fans swarm to her.Songs as constellations twirlwarm breeze in her tresses.Like Jesus before her, she’sMother’s emissary, as he wasconscripted to be his Father’s. Unlike him, will she…
The Miracle of Snow
I look out of the window as the sun makes the blanket of snow over all sparkle and am filled with wonder. We take snow for granted but as I look at the zillions of unique snowflakes that casually land and rest together, I shouldn’t. Whenever I’m feeling drained and numbed of joy, I need…
#Haikai Challenge #175 : Wolf Moon (Ōkami no tsuki)
Alpha, fur sparklingwith new bright snow, calls them in –old elk, red and still. image link here Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that allude to either the Wolf Moon (Ōkami no…
dVerse — OLN 283 — To Buk, with Love
“The difference between life and art is art is more bearable.“– Charles Bukowski Embraced heart listensfor time’s prisoner willdie, but you magic me,life breeze my porcelain.Sad poetry pies of warm liquid caramel perfume,your growling whimpersheal my wet window sky. image: found inside a copy of It Catches My Heart, by Charles Bukowski,…
dVerse — Poetics 438 — Along the Marne, resides…
Bused tourists travel through with cameras, bound to snap shots of old war memorials along the Marne, on our plateau of tears. Some may notice a mound near the banks where polaroid splashes of wildflowers grow. A place where those who live in these parts know resides the remains of trophæum. Reeking, foreign uniforms happened…
dVerse — Haibun 96 — Eagle-Eyes
Not in the present tense and not experienced by me, but still relevant to the prompt, it is about an event that happened with Bob, my ex-boyfriend, and Chauncey, our Boston Terrier, on our sailboat a few years ago. Bob had buoyed offshore in the inland lake we live near. He noticed a bald…
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