ShowdownTo discern truth from desiccated dead-eyed dickheadone must flip the script on every word it utters. Whenit denies, know. When it proclaims truth, know that it lies. It’s everything ugly about corporatocracy,control through idiocracy, dumbing down the 95%,mudding water of reality to murky unpotability. Playwith lives, color with ugly crayons dartboards of day.Cart them away,…
Category: poetry
The Numbers Game #89
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game. Judy says:Welcome to “The Numbers Game #89”. Today’s number is 211. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in…
dVerse Q231 – One Voice
One Voice Mentation works overmuchto grasp how foul memeticsdaft chiseler has strewnto infect our bloodshot world.How, with rancid spell unleashed,may we now contain it, to castwhere deep, iron-encased,unspeakable things dwell?Let us raise our voice,one song, in light. De, aka whimsygizmo, is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a 44-word…
The Oracle Speaks — Linger Not Here for Perfumed Voice
“Dreams and Desires 02” by Gayle Berry linger not here for perfumed voice linger not here for perfumed voice,angel’s velvet desire a ghost who always comes by night, a slow kiss is but a doggrowling for your broken embrace;dark candy magic flowersferocious need, must bleed & die morning window openmelt secret poison awaywake warm from…
Really and I
I think many writers turn to certain words or phrases as shortcuts when they don’t have time to articulate something in more detail. The word I know I use way too much is “really.” Another biggie I would like to give up would be “I.” Using it too much gives the impression of egotism or…
dVerse — MTB/Form — Switch
switchreturnto dream group friendsstitch meaning togethernouns dancing puzzles in the darkto light I went back to a dream group today after a hiatus. It felt good. Björn is today’s host for dVerse’ Meeting the Bar/Forms. Björn asks us to write a cinquain. It is a short poem based on syllable count.and is a five-line poem…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Domestic Violence Ain’t No Joke
Domestic Violence Ain’t No JokeSix months into to a life of me and you,we knew your mother was coming to visitbut you socked me in the cheek anyway.Silly you knew the karate you pulled meinto trained in tools to roll with; I grabbedyour arms, fell back, and threw you over into a wall. I met…
Tao-Talk 