Summer House, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey, Michigan Vintage Original Postcard #2765 – August 27, 1925 every august they’re already warmed up warblers gargle lilies whisper puffs crickets ratchet time surfs shush creeks tinkle grasses russ cicadas twang redtails whoosh goldfinches chatter bees hmmmm if you listen closely you will hear green echoes and small creaks…
Category: poetry
#MM Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip — tanka — Lilies in August
Lilies in August Caged underground to bright-petaled divas preening, their faces sunward. They call their many suitors, who crawl, run, and fly to them. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says: For this week’s Lucky Dip, I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out a Tanka. The topic is…
RIP, my beloved — paeansunpluggedblog
Our affair started in school at a young age I was so enamoured that I wanted to keep you close all the time, never letting you out of sight you became my mentor, my partner in crime, the instrument that opened my heart with you by my side, I became an intrepid warrior slaying with […]…
Pollock — Pain’s Paint and dVerse OLN 8/8/19
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…
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….
