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…
Category: poetry
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….
dVerse — quadrille — Sleep in heavenly peace
Curled in moonglow, warm-blooded family Breathe deeply, chests heaving frost Melting mallow marrow, fur against fur Thump-echoing thumps, living drums thrum night’s resonant hum Crystals crunch time; slinking latecomer Crawls in, yawns. Consensus is that Feathered dinner can wait until breakfast; Dreaming one dream. Note: The title of my quadrille is taken from…
#Haikai Challenge #117: Midwinter (mafuyu)
Dark’s pendulum swings heavy, to its furthest reach – dawn a memory Midwinter night, Luna’s lost Clouds sputter confused snow Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senyru, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga) that alludes to either midwinter (mafayu), midsummer (manastu),…
dVerse — prosery #7 — A Mother’s Love…
I watched a metallic spheroid rise in the distance over the lip of the arroyo. A shiny dime in a green-blue cloudless sky, the sun’s position behind and below it gave its outline a golden, mesmerizing aura. Sound below broke the spell when a calf bawled to her mother halfway up the ridge. Not…
