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…
Category: poetry
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…
A day in the life — of a lake sturgeon
image link I had to look up burgeon in the dictionary today. The first word that came to mind was sturgeon. Yes, my mind is a twisty biscuit. Sturgeons are, or should be, an endangered species, but for some reason they can still be fished, in limited places for limited times. I would encourage…
Justice*
image link *warning: content may offend some readers Today’s poem is in the triquain form. we found you violating a child trial by villagers; sentenced to death burned at the stake in a bonfire at the churchyard we spread your ashes over our fields you’ve helped feed us for years we give thanks …
Flint: Try to Explain
image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…
Poetry — Peaky Blinders
image link Today’s form is a limerick Peaky Blinders A man with a roving eye’s sneaky so’s not to get caught doing peeky if his wife catches him for him it’ll be grim and he’ll sleep on the couch for a weeky. Word of the Day Challenge — roving
