stealing plumsbare feet, warm earthsummer sky sprawlbright moon spills onplums, indigo amongstick-leaf shadows plucked, we run quick on silver pathto dew-drenched hillfall, wet, we shineshined, teeth sinkin, sweet juicy pulp kisses cover our faceslost in indigo top image has been edited from original, found here Lillian is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Lillian would…
Category: poetry
Unbound (haibun)
granddaughter’s snow spiral I’ve been snowed in since Feb 12th. I picked up what I’m thinking is the flu on the 10th and started showing symptoms on Valentines Day, right around the time it started snowing …. and snowing and snowing. Too sick to get out there and clear the driveway after waiting until it…
dVerse — MTB/Form Thursday — To My Bluebird Lover
pic taken 040424 To My Bluebird LoverHearken now to bluebirds on the wingMemory of summer’s love in mirthSeason twinkled bright and knew no dearthFrom each sigh, each stroke, each peak we’d wringSacred wine we’d sipped from gifts of earthHearken now to bluebirds on the wingMemory of summer love in mirthKnow that I will visit you…
dVerse Poetics — Infamous Nazi Artist Emil Nolde ekphrastic and commentary
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserves their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word…
dVerse — Prosery Monday — Old Red
Make of it a parkaFor your soul.— Alice Walker, fromBefore you knew you owned it Old Red Old Red lives for death. He hovers around villages at dark, urging sober to take just one sip, urging lonely to take in snakes, urging fists instead of hugs. His first memory is of crawling in a cold…
dVerse OLN 378 Tingled
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…
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…
Tao Talk 