Do you ever wonder why they name plants after women? I just wondered when I saw the two flora I am including are named Queen Anne and Witch Hazel. Anyway… the first pic is a lovely patch of lace out near the road. It grows all over here. There is a plant that has gone…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — Wee Troubadour
Wee TroubadourLast summer’s three, she climbed the chunky boulder, playing follow-the-leader to the little seven boy, therewith his dad, and leapt off when we weren’t looking.She bent her knees as we’d instructed, but her lipshit a knee. Her lips swelled along with bleed. Tears.This summer’s four climbs her rocky friend with morein mind. Its elevated…
dVerse – Q228 –Fishcake Promise, aka Fishy Promise
image link Fishcake Promise aka Fishy PromiseYou promised me fishcakes with tartar sauce,splashes of lemon and malt,potatoes and brussel sproutsroasted with garlic and dill.Headed home,I stopped at dessertery,mouth-watering at sugared air.Home: you weren’t there,except for your lingeringwrong smell of certain deceit. Mish is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Mish wants us to write a…
Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along with a Limerick 242 — Shaggy Green (mature audiences only)
image link Shaggy Green Shaggy Green’s an old troll who does dwellin a cell where the leftovers smell.If he’d just wash his ass,he could find him a lass;a fresh one who won’t rot and gel. Note: I think my shadow wrote this one. Esther Chilton is the host of Laughing Along with a Limerick. This…
dVerse — Memento — July Baby Beach Days
image link July baby days at the lakewe pack up dry gear toget wetWe arrive as sun starts to slakesugar sand has now cooledno sweatLay out blanket, toss off layersshe toddles for shallowswe laughShe floats on a turtle with airpushed by ring of shadowsriff-raffed Laura is today’s host at dVerse’ Meeting the Bar/Form. Laura says:Write…
Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompts — On Faith — Invisible Evidence
mustard seeds image link Invisible EvidenceAre faith and belief the same?They seem to be, but why areThere two words for one concept?Are they identical twins?Perhaps they are clones?Are faith and belief the same?Philosophers want us confused.Sorry, I can’t be bothered.They seem to be, but why arewe talking so much about it?It’s moot. You have it/them…
dVerse — Poetics Tuesday — When Little Devil Snickers
Front cover of the first US edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964)Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman When Little Devil SnickersLookin for a Bit-O-Honey,strollin’ down Sweet Avenue,what did this Kit Kat see?Big Hunks, bending aleelbows at the cafe;Three Musketeersgeared in Medieval cosplay, Sugar Babies,Waxed Mustachio Twizzlers, Tootsie Roll Red Hots.Sweetart’s got a…
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