once painted shapes now fading traces on the stone path to the ocean, reminders of when our love was alive. the salt of the sea reaches to touch them distant tears that also remember For some reason, this song comes to mind: FOWC with Fandango — Trace
Category: poetry
kin(d)
image link The world of social services, neglect/abuse cases, family courts, has a term for individuals who aren’t biological family but act in the same capacity as family. The term is fictive kin. When children (using children here but it could be one child) are removed from their biological parent(s) for allegations/substantiations of abuse/neglect, often…
Poetry — Dancing with Danger
image link The prompt word for #FOWC today is danger. Today’s offering is a nonet and a reverse nonet. Fear exists only because of danger. Real? Imagined? Despots know that creating an illusion of a reality that all is danger means they can rule through keeping subjects scared. How do we break out of the…
Gaia’s Family
image link First is an acrostic poem, then a distillation of the ideas in a free-form. People with a shared vision and willing to act based on that vision, where vision includes sharing the Earth with its other inhabitants where other critters are allowed to live in peace Air, fresh, along with space to move…
The beauty of a well-built fire
The fire burning in the wood burner tonight. triangle of logs burning as one grace this home with heat from its heart
A study in over
image link The Fandango prompt today is the word over. Today’s offering is in the form of a modified minute poem . I first tried to think of the many uses of the word and tried to use it 3 different ways (or more) here. A Study in Over A fashioned world for you and…
Tao-Talk 