It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. Something sad Sad how? It doesn’t matter how. Put on paint – matter. Paint it. Something matters? How doesn’t it? Doesn’t it? Paint is pain, long-mattered Pain’s paint says something mattered. Put on pain’s paint and matter — as long…
Category: poetry
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 7th 2019, daisies
A million yellow- cushioned buttons, white-framed polka-dotted carpet. * yellow featureless faces, wearing white bonnets look up in the field * A sea of white with yellow polka-dots — a bird’s eye view. * Warm summer winds — music that makes daisies hula, dreaming Hawaii. * Yellow, white, green a perfect summer outfit sunny field…
dVerse — mindfulness — While you’re gone…
“The Soul of the Rose” by John William Waterhouse Heart to heart, soul to soul talk at ego: “Take a vaca, go by car, plane, or bus enjoy it — be kind with our libido. Leave now, and check in only if you must. If you insist, resist, I’ll have you trussed! During the time…
dVerse – haibun – Hiroshima –Hibakujumoku
Looking way back at the Jurassic period ginkgo trees flourished across the Asian continent. Over millions of years, their fossils began to diminish. Two and a half million years ago, only a “handful of ginkgo lineages” remained, in the forests of Central China. At some point 1300 to 1400 trees made their way to Japan….
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #98 — Perspective
image link Perspective — a prism where your eye is the light your brain waits for rainbow. Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says: A favorite theme which reflects in my writing is perspective. I’m totally fascinated with the potential of this – how it creates different realities for…
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — Fields of Flowers
image link textured color rainbow or monochrome — happy, tired bees drone * sea of white lilies sweet waves rise in warm afternoon — calls bees to swim * summer flowers, colorful and social, cluster across fields * Pollack’s ideas whispered to him from flowers – color-splashed canvas. * Ants and grasshoppers dine under colored…
dVerse — dizain — A question of trust
“Trust N Love” by Mallika Batra Edited for next to last line word length: A question of trust Trust is like knowing each day brings weather. Mistrust, never knowing what it will be. Trust soothes like light brushes with a feather. Mistrust, combo poison ivy and fleas. Thanking stars or cursed, I’m brought to my…
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