http://gph.is/1hk0w3e Chevrefeuille’s prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is first snow, where it may be a haiku or haibun. I chose haiku. Pinpricking iced flakes tap skin – and everything else; some melts, some doesn’t.
Category: poetry
d’Verse — house ramble and find
Lillian is the hostess this Tuesday with d’Verse poet’s pub. She instructs: So – here’s what I’m asking you to do today. Walk around your house and look at all the things hanging there: on walls, in closets, on your refrigerator door, etc. Pick something that “speaks to you” and use that as the basis…
Bad Boys
image link Today’s Word of the Day Challenge is immature. Although the word immature doesn’t show up in my poem, I hope it describes it enough to pass for the prompt! boys toys man cave bros before hos sex slave drinkin’ a brewski watching the game men don’t do dishes laundry, the same…
d’Verse — Haibun Monday: January
Today’s offering is a haibun written for hostess of the evening’s d’Verse, Kim’s, prompt of January. Waking up at eleven, looking out at another repetition of anemic feebleness that washes the life out everything. Invisible beyond grey, clouds prevent any instance of ROYGBIV. Eyes strain to delineate blah from blah. To say it is preferable…
Sunday morning haiku
image link Getting ready to build the morning fire, I stood up from the wood burner and looked outside. I saw a brown lump out by one of the fenceposts that isn’t usually there. When you spend a lot of time staring at a particular place, you immediately notice if something is different. I walked…
Heart thaw
image link Today’s Word of the Day Challenge is thawing. Sol’s beams warm Caress crystals To tears With warm beams Your smile caress My fears Tears to streams Sate river’s slake Fears melt, Puddle, dissipate Burgeoned river From banks to flats My burgeoned heart Holds strong at crack Flowers sprout To herald spring Love’s…
FOWC — Forgive
image link Fandango’s FOWC is forgive. Today’s offering is in the form of a triolet. Forgive Hearts shall lighten with forgiveness Burdens gone, shall weigh down no more Shift to wrongdoer; divest Hearts shall lighten with forgiveness Lightened soul, with wings, soars fearless Cosmic balance shifts, evens the score Hearts shall lighten with forgiveness…
Tao-Talk 