A convention center in Wuhan, China, converted into a temporary hospital, Feb. 6, 2020. Reading Brendan’s essay about how things with the weather are speeding up and getting stronger, along with the photo he used showing the beds lining up in a convention center turned hospital in Wuhan, China for the viral epidemic going on,…
Category: poetry
#MM Music Challenges — true love’s erasure
Jim Adams is the research-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on this “The Race is On” and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Lyrics from the song, “written by Don Rollins and first recorded as a demo by Jimmie Gray in 1961”…
dVerse — haibun Monday — Spring
Last week the library offered a free presentation on essential oils where every participant walked away with a spritzer bottle with a tea tree oil, lavender, and orange room freshener. I’ve carried the bottle with me from room to room and into the car. I spritzed my pillow, sheets, and heating pad with it as…
#MM Saturday Mix – Double Take — karmic comedy
On the hill lived a maiden so fair To her father her suitors paid fare Highest bidder most foul Fowl that crowed and then howled Grandpa’s grandkids had feathers not hair! Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says: This week we are seeing double with ‘Double Take’. The ‘Double Take’ challenge…
dVerse — alliteration (assonance & consonance) — airborne
her wings opened slowly silent creaks needing oil midday sunset flames aglow black-framed confident flaps to fluttering now lifts, carried sideways tilting madly airborne Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse. Bjorn says: Today I would like you to try using different types of assonance and consonance in any poem of your choice. Try to listen…
dVerse — dreamland
Dreams are messages from home. –Clarissa Pinkola-Estes Vines string the pathway of Ethereal mist day, softened Songs of gentian butterflies Silvery wings of faeries Enormous sunflowers Lily pads; leaping leopard frogs Ogling bunnies with twitchy noses Fine fern fronds fondle furry ears Yarrow sway with rose mallow On a spongy marsh ledging Umbrellas glide, held…
#Haikai Challenge #123: first sparrows [twittering] (hatsusuzume)
Pink blanket pulled up Behind frozen bones of trees — Sparrow’s silhouette Snuggling in my warm bed Wakened, with Spring, by his song 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 states or alludes to…
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