Sustained Solitude in Covid-19 It’s an old body with a new jacket That was chosen without consent. It’s a cool absence of warm auras, Missing three-dimensional smiles. Non-human flora & fauna besties Constant life-affirming presences. Periodic staving off of surrealism And fear that this may be the end. Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse. …
Category: poetry
#Haikai Challenge (5/3/20): Flower Moon
May’s Flower Moon is the last Super Moon in a series of four for the year – she saved her best for last, as the critters who were sleeping or in hibernation are now awake to appreciate her beauty. Frogs raise their voices; Turtles rest on floating logs – Silver lights each face. …
dVerse — quadrille — Guess what I am
Guess what I am Silly: makes toddlers laugh bats its eyelashes at somberness climbs into Terry Gilliam’s open skull sits on the window ledge and swings its legs scrunches your face when I tickle you dances in sunlight with bullfrogs plays badminton blindfolded creates Fierce Creatures whistles out-of-tune clip from “Fierce Creatures” …
dVerse — Lake Michigan between Ludington and Manistee, MI, USA
These photos were taken on one day in July 2013 at Lake Michigan. Bob and I had driven his motor home north, heading towards Ludington. I was the map captain, and I noticed a small park not too far north, between Ludington and Manistee. We followed the map and discovered a perfect little park. Set…
dVerse — haibun –Basho
Friends and celebrated poets Li Po (Li Bai) and Tu Fu (Du Fu) lived in the seven-hundreds. They sipped wine together and toasted the moon in bamboo groves. Almost a thousand years later, Basho became a poet of his time. Basho published under different names, including one that meant “green peach” as a sign of…
Haikai Challenge 136: late cherry [blossoms*] (osozakura) & dVerse OLN
A sunny clearing deep in the woods — a small tree, cherry: May blossoms. Apple buds wait for first act’s cherry’s dance — sweet petals on wind Late cherry blossoms — I smell them before seeing tender sweet blushes. Honeybee’s secret stash behind the hedge — cherry promises. Mourning doves lament under the cherry tree…
#MM — Saturday Mix — Cry from the darkness
Cry from the Darkness When all that is is up for profit A call for prophet needs pierce the sky Tortured, twisted souls will never rest Until wrest from darkness by the light Sarah Weejars is the host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says: This week we are seeing double with…
Tao-Talk 