Understanding the mysteries of the language of love takes warm midsummer nights under the full moon – fireflies signal lifelong devotion 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 alludes to the…
Category: poetry
dVerse — prosery 14 — The Inperturbable Street
We go in different directions down the imperturbable street. –Gwendolyn Brooks A pair of mourning doves wheels away, startled when the keychain lands near them. “Don’t be a child. You have custody of Merlot,” Gillian says. Harold had never hated himself as much as he did right now. Why had he ignored the red…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #138 — Intrepid We Go Forth
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are players. They have their entries and exits” — Shakespeare. Who we are is learned behavior. Reinforced by repetition Institutions’ sour savor Us v. Them a favored flavor Cooked by gluttons’ craved ambition Who we are is learned behavior. Taints our sense like…
dVerse — villanelle — Green Disease
We should control our avarice It matters not if kith nor kin It makes our souls cadaverous Our urge to win is sick, scabrous, Where matricide isn’t a sin We can’t control our avarice Our Mother’s become cancerous We can’t tell her bone from her skin It makes our souls cadaverous Our eyes gulp down…
Love Reign O’er Us
A second submission for today’s dVerse prompt. This song says it all. love reign o’er us a mist of best intentions saturating all
dVerse — A day’s rain
“Gladiolus in the Rain,garden flower,pink and white,” by Valeria Belogurova You know it comes, the stage is set Sky turns to grey, wind changes gear Hushed hiss or pour from sky – all’s wet A sound you see, a sight you hear. Pink blossoms pray, “Please, not too hard!” Worms curl and dance, green…
dVerse — quadrille 105 — Blue Reign
“Blue rain in a blue dream,” by Elena Mosurak Blue Reign My bony knee’s strong, stubborn, crumpling your larynx. I’m Hades’ magnet sucking your qi; your boom’s whimpered. Such dark revelry for me as your life slips away: All Hail Box Crusher. Stupid paralyzed crowd is impotent to blue reign — we kill as…
