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…
Category: poetry
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…
gratitude
image link The Word of the Day Challenge is gratitude. Passage from Robert Heinlein’s book, Stranger in a Strange Land, on the topic of gratitude: “Sit back down—and for God’s sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don’t have my years of practice. Now let me get something straight: you are…
Madness Ignited
image link Fandango’s FOWC today is madness and Word of the Day Challenge is ignite. This gloomy weather is getting to me. Today’s offering is both disturbing and frightening. WARNING: It may be triggering and is not suitable for children. Don’t say you weren’t warned! a finger traces an imaginary line down a path…
Village Pastoral — revision 2 of 1
image link Village Pastoral * Here is the latest revision, using enjambment: * Each morn, sun’s rise, she passes a dog, long dead, bloated, rotting roadside; its sick stench, maggot’s perfume, cause ripe wretching and swoon. She prays for rain to wash it all away. * Town’s well; wives talk, pails rise, smiles fall,…
Mirrorball
gif link The Word of the Day Challenge is resolutions. Fandango’s FOWC is enigma. The offering today are two nonets, one a reverse (the first one is the reverse), but each uses both prompts for today. I also tried to make them complement each other. Orb Focus Of varied Resolutions Generates versions Enigma of what’s…
