Games People Play games played by rules? design? join by choice? unknowing? exulting? losing? suffering? toy parts Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says: [T]his week, I want you to write on a topic of your choice, using the challenge format of your preference. Choose one, or two, or all! It’s…
Category: poetry
Invented Poetry Form — The Anagrammatic Selfie — OK ya, ai ai ai
image link Paul Szlosek recently posted information about an invented form and gave two examples. Check out his post to see how it is done. I tried doing it with the letters in my full name but my first, middle, and last names are short, so the word list was fairly short. I tried…
The Wanderer and dVerse OLN
The Wanderer Springtime season’s when the growing Sunshine comes and the soil, it warms Plants and critters pulse with knowing Feed store sells pheasant chicks when born Orphaned, boxed, sold by the dozen Instead of nuts, seeds, berries, corn Protein mash, their distant cousin Lost to nature, tamed and forlorn Ignoring nature’s ways and means…
#Haikai Challenge #118: Holiday Season
Shattering Winter’s Night Candle numbers change But lighting is universal – Flame shatters dark * Winter Pheasant Gold, green, red contrast, Warm against the cold white – Loud cry breaks silence * Winter Holiday Evenings Cats curl, warm, sleeping Red green lights polka-dot fur – Mouse sugar plum dreams Frank J. Tassone is…
dVerse — gifts for that special someone
image link I decided to get you a passel of gift certificates this year, including one each for: 1) Santa’s Elves Hammer – to break your fingers, in hopes for a Tweetless 2020 2) Orange duct tape – to match your skin when it covers your mouth 3) Get out of Jail Free card –…
Thursday Inspiration 35 — The Heart is the Home of the Brave
When I saw the picture and the song lyrics for this week’s Thursday Inspiration, it reminded me of a movie I saw a few months back, called, “Alpha.” It tells the tale of a young man’s survival in a harsh winter climate back in the times when humans were hunter-gatherers. The young man is out…
dVerse — The Frog King
Chaos disintegration confusion conflicting destroying competing nightmarish degrading holistic organic calming enveloping healing inclusive visionary Peace Mish is today’s host of dVerse. Mish says: Do you ever wish you could just wave a magic wand, eliminate everything that creates havoc, unrest, uncertainty, injustice? I do. Today I am asking you to do the same….
Tao-Talk 