“Mona Lisa,” by Leonardo DaVinci i. Lisa, history/meaningI wear a mysterious smirkBut why?Which side of mirror am I?Do youSeek to know? ammunition or jokes?Care pastTechnicality of surface gleamSeeingInto depths of my inky poolTo feeling? Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian Meaning and History: Short form of Elizabeth (though often used independently) and its cognates in other languages. This is the name…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Haibun Monday — March Madness
“Night of the Crescent Moon” by Zana Brown March MadnessIt’s the season when skin flakes and bones ache. When one is cast away in a sea of snow and watery grey. It’s the season when moon pares to silver arc. A time when one slings mad hope at it with lasso’s faded memory of summer’s…
From Hobo Moon Cartoons: I Stand With Ukraine
The image below is a collage of a dream I had back when Russia invade Ukraine. I saw a giant snake and road with many pair of baby shoes on it. I have this saved as “lozenge pattern from Ukraine”
dVerse — OLN 379 — Caw
CawIt’s only taken a decade or so for her to trust me.How long do crows live, anyway? Maybe she’s theoffspring of original, distant murder who observed kindness of a human and decided to chance it.She’s visited the compost heap. I hear her callwhen the feeders are filled. Sometimes I leaverolled oats, raisins, and other tidbits…
dVerse Poetics — Divine Daughter
Grand River, taken 7/26/24 Divine Daughterthree small atoms co-mingled chemistrybirthed a molecule, divinized daughtersparkling progeny, lifeblood named waterfreelance roamer, temper’tural sweetysublimating, vapored diasporathree small atoms co-mingled chemistrybirthed a molecule, divinized daughtermists skies, fills rivers, pumps sap in treestantrum blizzards, floods, ice; can’t fault hermulti-morphs of seasons’ reigns, we laud herthree small atoms co-mingled chemistrybirthed a…
dVerse — Q218 — stealing plums
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…
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…
Tao-Talk 