dVerse Q217 Zing(s)

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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

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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…

The Oracle Speaks and Fashions Two

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dVerse OLN 377 — Note to Myself

Gertrude Abercrombie’s, “Where or When (Things Past)” (1948), oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby Museum of Art, shared with permission Note to Myself A small, tall door left,in space wherehorizon cuts offat legless knees.Reflexes subdued,tethered to lobotomizing deaf.Paralyzed marionette,holding strings,manifest myself rearing…