Nature’s Intuition Seedy winter light is here, A tendril of Spring’s seasoned secret. Quiet colors lonely brown lichen. Cold blue frost murmurs how long; Bee breeze listens and asks when Nature’s intuition will give bright hymns Of daffodil and crocus. Grace is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. I used The Oracle for this…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Whispers from the beach
A gentle sizzled whoosh of roaring speech That never takes a chance to stop and rest A voice that always whispers from the beach The sand, now zoo of footprints pressed upon From webbed and clawed escapees of the sea Do not forget when water sole was on ‘Twas muffled then in distant gurgled…
dVerse — prosery 11 — Love’s End
I don’t know why I was surprised every time love started or ended. My first – age eighteen and doe-eyed for Billy who lived one farm over. We planned marriage after graduation, but in the fall of our senior year, Fay took him from me. Next – Mr. Murrow, boss at the department store when…
Haikai Challenge #130: [spring/autumn] equinox (higan) — Return
Come close to me, dear Round nightglow goddess, whisper Your daughter’s promise of green Blue-grey giantess Your seasonal lover nears Let’s share sighs for known secrets Today my offering is in the form of a sedoka, which is a pair of katauta love poems. The first one is from the earth to…
#MM Saturday Mix — Coronavirus: king of the zoo
The classroom is a zoo. We’re caged within its reach. Worldwide it spreads its goo. The classroom is a zoo. It threatens me and you. Grim lesson does it teach. The classroom is a zoo. We’re caged within its reach. My offering today is a triolet form poem. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery’s…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #126 — Isolation
An oak tree, alone on a hill, may grow big and strong, but when gale-force winds descend, it may topple down. An oak forest, where trunks stand side by side, limb to limb, feet entwined with each other’s, will long endure. Oak trees do not choose where they grow. Fate chooses where the acorn finds…
dVerse — list poem — pumped
Acceleration heart thumps Beauty Curves Dynamic lean muscles flex Exhaust Fast fit endurance Grip Handlebars a solid hold Injection Joy mufflers rumble Kick-start again, Mick! Leathers slapping, Sheryl Maintenance everlubes Noise duets Open road Performance wherever, whenever Quick Rally electrolytes, shower Sleek Throttle pumped, Steven Unsafe Richard Victory bareback Wind resistance X-rays fight the power…
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