These are my first attempts at writing American Sentences. My favorite subjects are featured in a series of 3. Two cats curl on two separate perches; not friends, yet not enemies. One curls in leopard-skin bed; one curls on pink-printed fleece — both dreaming. One has long stripes with white cotton bits; one’s short-haired, white,…
Category: poetry
dVerse — apple — With a little help from my friends*
Like any tree, apples make themselves welcome in a community; they prefer wind, rain, temperateness, hills, and a fair bit of sunshine. Pollinators adore the wispy allure of the fragrant blossoms, who call them in for a sweet powder-nectared blend of nature’s tang; mutual orgasm achieved. Bees, butterflies, and birds stagger through the air, intoxicated,…
dVerse — haibun — War Child
Some say that Mars was the son of Jupiter and Juno, but when Jupiter decided to “usurp the mother function” by giving birth to Minerva directly from his forehead, Juno needed a balancing response. She consulted the Goddess Flora; Flora obtained a magic flower by plucking it ritually, then impregnated Juno by touching her belly….
What do you see # 19 — To cross a bridge…
To cross a bridge from light to dark Can mean so many different things From sure to doubt, from lush to stark To cross a bridge from light to dark May sell your soul to make your mark Or face your fears in listened dreams To cross a bridge from light to dark Can mean…
#Haikai Challenge #128 (2/29/20): east wind (kochi)
Chicago’s east wind Gains lake’s chilled momentum – MI feathers ruffle. 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 East wind (Kochi).
#MM Saturday Mix — Ride ’em, Cowgirl
As the horse had a limp to his gait Made me fall as I reached for the gate As the horse from you leased Pay med bills at the least Or to court for small claims; test your fate. I went with a limerick, which has, per shadowpoetry.com, a set rhyme scheme of :…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #124 — two paths
These lines of Mueller’s poem jumped out at me: I was too young to notice how fear persists, and how the anger that causes fear persists, that its trajectory can’t be changed or broken, only interrupted. Does anger cause fear? Is fear immutable? Is anger? Are trajectories at best interrupted? What if fear is the…
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