image link The other ones were simple play Us, though, for real in ev’ry way Hurt brings life to shadow of death you walk, not talk, with silent breath; our growth at bay. * Mind in turmoil, throat has a lump, Our future can’t end o’er a bump! It wasn’t that bad — or was…
Category: poetry
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
Day 1 — Surrender
* The ponds lie beyond the yard, beyond the fields, beyond thick brush between here and there. Each year the brush multiplies, ever more impassable, they seem ever farther away. This year the ponds were not seen, as the path leading to them has overgrown, and trees have fallen over it, from thunderstorms with sheer…
Quintessence
image link When your hand reaches for my breast, quintessence slaps it away. When your lips stretch towards mine, quintessence curls up and punches you in yours, In the night, when your sneaking leads to my room, quintessence grabs the knife. When you try to bend me over in your office, quintessence opens the door…
K’un, the great fish
Ellen Goodman interview of Ai Weiwei, including early life and going up to the present: Exhibition now showing in L.A.: Exhibition now showing in L.A. 9/27/18 L.A. Times article on Ai Weiwei’s exhibition now showing in L.A. Ai Weiwei drifting – art, awareness and the refugee crisis | DW Documentary: K’un, languidly…
taciturn
image link this alone can indicate the urge (to) relate negated Word of the Day Challenge — taciturn
rose goddess
Unpacking a box of things brought home from work after retirement, I found a small set of magnetized words that were used to make freeform poetry on the overhead cabinet in my cubicle once upon a time. I decided to pull out 25 words randomly to get started, then pulled out some more to find…
Tao-Talk 