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…
Category: poetry
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…
dVerse — Quadrille 121 — Winter’s Embrace
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…
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…
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