The feeling I get when I become a transmitter for the vatic voice is the same feeling I get when listening to some music. Whether it comes out of my mouth or fingertips or comes in through my ears, it seems to infuse the area from the base of my throat to my chest cavity…
Category: poetry
dVerse — haibun — day schemes, moon dreams
As Autumn weather cools things down in the Northern hemisphere, woodpeckers get ravenous and attack the silent suet cakes with increased vigor. Unfortunately, their enthusiasm has been more keen than usual this year as they look for tasty snacks they imagine are hiding in the wood siding of the house. They may be doing…
dVerse — Protest — pearl dust
Fine precious pearl, a gift divineyou’ve crushed like dirt beneath your boot;Stole innocence, oft’ hidden crime on precious pearl, a gift divine. You’re fouler than leaked toxic slime,forgot, remembered in the booksby precious pearl, a gift divine,now dust like dirt ‘neath heaven’s boot. Then comes a whirling in the airthat gathers sparkles from the dirt.Sweet…
dVerse — Ekphrastic — Catrin Welz-Stein — Rose
Rose —fragrant, ruffled,posing, light-catching, captivating,blooming, immortal, unobtainable, hungry,luring, piercing, draining,cursed, regretful,phantasm. I chose to write a diamante form poem. Thank you, Lillian, for this prompt and thank you to Catrin for her mesmerizing artwork. Please click on Catrin’s name below to see more of her work. Lillian is today’s host of dVerse. Lillian…
Haikai Challenge #157: Autumn Equinox (Shunbun)
Autumn Equinox’ Color ClockBlue globe ticks a notchGreens splash to orange and redYellow heat turns down Equinox Set ChangeBlue mirrored ripplesOnce framed with green are now brownSwans swim a new pond Autumn HarvestHungry red squirrelPine nuts, sunflower seeds, pears Wrens eat fat spiders Images:orange and red leavesswansred squirrel Frank J. Tassone is…
dVerse OLN — Redemption
This tree had seen its fair share of misery long before lightning or disease disfigured it. It is unknown how old it was when Felt mansion was completed in 1928. It is known that within months of the mansion’s completion Mrs. Felt died in her bedroom not 50 feet away from the tree. It is…
dVerse — Let Autumn Wait
It seems as though you are still summerby W.S. Merwin, from “To the Light of September” It seems as though you are still summeras dawn’s pink flame melts crystal dewand winds dance with sunflowers. Live, green-infused canvasand pears unperfumed,you play to stay. Let autumnwait for us. Image: “Doe Under Pear Tree,” taken…
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