image link Gaia scoops water from our cursed lands Crops turn to ashes, our home turns to dust Our cow lies dying, her face scored with sand Small Goji’s abed, his fevered face flushed Vultures in dead orange tree, our hopes crushed We pack our possessions with trembling hands Coin enough left, train fare…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Prosery #2 — Queen of the Great Lakes
Thunderstorms pushed my small sailboat ever farther from shore. Superior, cold, deep, held skeletons — ships and people – long picked clean by pike and sturgeon, on its sandy feet. Dusk crept into the blackened maelstrom. I remember feeling an overpowering weariness and turning my fate over to the Queen of the Great Lakes; my…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #96 — Lost and Found and dVerse OLN 7/25/19
Lost and Found Knee high, defunct and demoralized Struggling to rise above gravity’s grip thick ropes attached to anchors tied to my ankles, I stalled as a hot air balloon with a leak trapped in the smog, gasping for oxygen I reached for the hatchet and started chopping right arm muscles screaming with repetitive motion…
dVerse — Dizain — Respite
photo by Jean Beaufort One afternoon Harriet disappeared Visible but she was no longer there The moment had come she had always feared The she she was simply no longer cared Who she pleased or didn’t or how they fared Lila now, such adventures she had planned First to Red Rocks and her favorite band…
#MM — Tale Weaver — Visiting — Long Black Veil
image link is to Dave Matthews Band version of the song but the first “h” is missing so it won’t load Michael is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Tale Weaver. Michael says: This week the task is to compose a tale in which the term/word ‘visit’ features.It could be visiting, visited, visitation……you go where the…
Carpe Diem #1703 skinny dipping in the moonlight
our ripples flutter like angels wings as we merge under moon’s wise gaze luna’s spotlight shines on ecstasy’s theater moans accent stillness land long forgotten our skin shrivels, waterlogged our mouths stay warm evening loons pass accepting our presence as part of the night nighthawks wait for us our cavorting disturbs fish easy midnight snacks…
#MM — Photo Challenge — Ship of Fools and dVerse — On Climate Crisis
– sound-dream @ tumblr Ship of Fools God’s ten thousand things Elements that swirl Oasis in space This dear ship of fools Rusty and leaking Decades of misuse Hellbent destruction As we build our tombs Rabid lemmings run* Deny there’s an edge Idiocy’s race Bullets in the gun Pointed at Earth’s head Afterlife to come…
