Afterthaw’s blizzard Chills water to ice, mid-drip – Bird’s baths must wait. ~ Clear path turns long trudge To mailbox. Warm weather left No return address. ~ Cardinal feathers From slick shiny to puffed warmth — Cold’s return fashion. ~ Weatherbug’s re-freeze Tells crocus and snowdrops: “Sleep on for awhile.” ~ Midwinter light grows Temperatures…
Category: poetry
#MM Saturday Mix – Opposing Forces
like dawn you crept in to mend these cracks with golden light this vessel again fit to hold a promise fulfilled with love’s elixir drinking in brightest noon, thirsting as we entwined in toasts day waned and midnight fell, our restored cups clattering evermore breaking our once cupped hearts into red glittering shards that left…
Cloud Streets
From mlive.com: By Tanda Gmiter | tgmiter@mlive.com The Arctic cold snap that is pushing through the Great Lakes today and tomorrow might make being outside feel brutally frigid, but it’s doing some really lovely things to the clouds overhead. This freezing air pouring over our warmer Great Lakes is creating “cloud streets” – nice little…
dVerse MTB — evil in waiting
It was a regular Saturday morning for the junior bowling league, where my 10 year old son’s and other teams rolled, which took up many of the 50 lanes at the alley, but not all; there was open bowling, where looking around I saw a white man in his 30s or older with a young…
dVerse — Black History Month — My Name is …….
image link I chose Maya Angelou’s (profound) poem to pull inspiration from: Harlem Hopscotch By Maya Angelou One foot down, then hop! It’s hot. Good things for the ones that’s got. Another jump, now to the left. Everybody for hisself. In the air, now both feet down. Since you black, don’t stick around. Food is…
#Haikai Challenge #125: hawk (taka)
Spring’s sun melts snow Hawk’s shadow warns too late — Seeds left uneaten. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of you choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the hawk (taka) This is my second attempt at a…
dVerse — quadrille 97 — Breathe the Stars
“Essential oils are like little packages of positivity.” – Valerie Ann Worwood, from The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, 25th Anniversary Edition (2016) Build dreampaths that are Blessed, mindful; balancing Hills and holes along the way, A journeyed setting of the stage For living to bloom. Essential oils of geranium, grapefruit, Petitgrain and…
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