Tantalizing tongues test us terribly to totter from truth, tumbling into torrential tastes that in time will taunt. Languid laps of luxurious liquid lines lingering lusciously on your lovely lips; then la-la-la-la-la-la! Wagging waddlers wander wickedly willing wanderlust wilting woestricken ones, who wonder why. Morgan Dragonwillow is the host…
Category: poetry
dVerse — set — brooder
burnished fluff above cream and white sets on fashioned straw bright amber eyes under textured soft red tilt, watch, and wait doughy hand curls around, lifts, tosses henkibble. squawk! instant ejection, propulsion, gobbling, distracted, reveals six oval promises — promises that will soon be kept I remember the few years we kept chickens….
Haikai Challenge #107 — red leaves (momiji)
image courtesy of Wikipedia Cold days hug cold nights Fire drains from earth and sky Inhaled by autumn leaves Rosy-cheeked maples whisper Secrets to tall browning oak Frank is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 6 — blue — your eyes
Your Eyes mesmerizing as a snake’s cool as first ice on the pond distant as atmosphere near outer space blank as a huskie’s warm as a summer lake hot as a smiling cowboy’s cold as an arctic fox’s clinical as an animal researcher’s inviting as pie frightening as hitchcock’s shower scene’s frightened as hitchcock’s shower…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 5 and MM Saturday Mix – Aperture
image by: mk vecchitto I wander halls with many doors Of varied woods and endless cores The choice I make will not be forced On cosmic course. On cosmic course I skip through one of oak that shines Am in a place of flowered vines Each bloom displays precise guidelines There will be fines! There…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 4 — Hourglass
procrastination drains me, fills death’s half life’s grains falling inertia’s quicksand pools grows deeper shadows sink drowned regrets pile empty husks I stand on, animate corpse When I saw the prompt, this song by Radiohead, called, “Fitter Happier” came to mind. Morgan Dragonwillow is the host of OctPoWriMo. Morgan says: Have you ever felt like…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 3 and dVerse OLN — Persnickety Pear (language warning)
Chromosomal fate Blood-soaked baggage Temperamental bitch Like a bad penny Keeps turning up Force fed hormones Great clots of backlash But she was there When I needed her. And again. Then she stabbed me In the back. I had to cut her loose. Sleep well, old girl. Grace is today’s host of dVerse‘s Open Link…
Tao-Talk 