image link Today’s offering is a blitz poem , which is where you pretty much do stream of consciousness. Usually I do these with no real idea in mind of where it is going. Today’s is different in that I kept the word of the day challenge — tactile in mind while writing it. This…
Category: poetry
First Snow
We had our first snow today. I’ve been sitting here and looking at it all day. Birds fly past, heading to and from the bird feeders. The occasional hawk comes into view. Today’s offering is in the form of a rondeau . Snow’s arrival to the season turns the air from cold to freezin’…
traces
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
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…
Tao-Talk 