Minneapolis: land of white snow and dark hearts – one more chalked outline. * Means of movement for vehicular homicide – a reason to kill. * Persons of color, your mandatory choices: death, cage, tom, drugs, star. * With every badge comes training, fraternity – license to kill. * Blue eyes fear brown eyes…
Category: poetry
#MM Saturday Mix — Your love’s return
when quivered lines sigh stable when gentle breeze bare stirs when heart affirms its able when I rest among the ferns I’ll sing, recall your fable as hawks fly o’er the trees I’m bound to you, a cable like blooms are bound to bees forgot is “wrong,” the label instead is love renewed return to…
#MM Music Challenge — Steppenwolf erasure poem
Jim Adams is the far-seeing host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [“Midnight at the Oasis,” by Maria Muldaur] and use it for a short story, a piece of flash fiction, or a poem that you can share with the WordPress writing community. My favorite part of…
dVerse — A room with potential and The Sunday Muse
Adequate dimensions for its purpose, Wall-to-wall closet, and two night stands; Glass door open, breaths deep, fresh Beige, squared with art, tolerant voyeurs Goldilocks bed, a drawer full of toys Blue books, cremes, and oils Vervain, rose, jasmine mists and smokes A stage set for dreams, awake, asleep A corner box where green has no…
dVerse — Meet Piet — Go Pac Go
The Pac-Man (and Ms. Pac-Man) game grid is a simple style, one of the first digital games that came out that had a sit down console. I remember back in the 1980s, the fitness club I belonged to had one of them in the juice bar/lounge area. The grid-like design of this piece reminds me…
Haikai Challenge #140 (5/21/20): Memorial Day and dVerse OLN
Breeze sways spattered poppies long after the sniper is gone — dark falls on a corpse. * Ravaged meat in a box: Special Delivery. Worms finish what maggots started. * He watches her kneel in the wet grass at his grave, crying for herself in her long black veil+. * Three nights she dreams of…
Thursday Inspiration 57 — rise to color
From watery shadow’s limbo Burning embered love does rise To glow on spirit’s tippy toes Monochromatic suffocation Flooded with oxygenated hues Then sighing, recede, and rest. Paula Light is the host of Thursday Inspiration. Paula says: This week’s theme is sunset and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “Sunrise Sunset,” a…
