TingledYou tingle meas you fall.Beam-fluttered,I shiver in yourtextured patterns.You come to meas you will,with your silverpuffed friendswho lie, theirdark smirkslove’s rebuke.Despite, I runnel you,now slinking under crust of ice. I thought of love between snow and weak-winter sun. Björn is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Björn gives us an optional prompt:So as…
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dVerse Poetics VD humor
image link Farty HeartyCharmin* or charming?wiping or swiping*?both needed products?Septic or sepsis?tanks or antibiotics?evacuation or fulfilling?Both bodily functionsof will and the willing.Waste or lust?Shit or grocery store roses?Both soul-empty,like Valentine’s prison quicky.*Notes:*Charmin is a brand of toilet paper.*swiping screens on Tindr, a dating app*see Dark History of Valentines Day video Sanaa is today’s host for…
dVerse Q217 Zing(s)
iStupendous, ama-zingmy eyeballs are gazingat colors of braising bright palette of praisingas white does its phasingout.As crystals are going, spring groundwork is showingabove and belowingwith thawing and glowingwith mudding and growingas water is flowingaround. spring bunny iizing is the thingputs sing in songwrong in rightputs length in longthe bat in eyelashesmorse in dot-dashesputs the cunei…
John Barleycorn, by Robert Burns
image link, which takes you to a good bit of info on John Barleycorn’s cultural identity I’m listening to Traffic’s album, “John Barleycorn Must Die” this afternoon. The title song’s lyrics got my curiosity going. Who is this John Barleycorn to be on the receiving end of such abuse? With a little search, I found…
The Oracle Speaks — Summer Beach
Summer BeachAn arm said you were beneath herbreasts as symphonyhot music in a sun dressheaving to the lake.I will lazy dream youpicturing peaches in pink sweatwhisper-worshiping your lovely beat. magnet set original edition
dVerse — MTB — Winter Sparrowlets
Winter Sparrowletsifairy feathers, snowy starlightshackled inside crackled blue ice former spacenaut, fallen treasureearthly yellow friendly night lightsurprised winter walker’s pleasuresnowy starlight, fairy feathers iinightly walking, winter gardenpathlights shining on the watervoices echo as we’re talkingbouncing off a landscape spartandispels outside darkness stalkingwinter garden, nightly walking iiiwinter beacon, silent singercomfort us when long nights lingerinduce hope,…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Groundhog Day
It is a summer day walking along the winding path of the former golf course that is being re-wilded into a nature preserve. The property sits adjacent to another nature preserve, which also has a wildlife sanctuary, education center, sugar shack, and community garden. It is a separate entity but is also considered a welcomed…
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