where can we find light in this never-ending shade?–From Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” Answered Curled up in blankets, layered against cold and wet, I read Clarke, Heinlein, or Atwood by candlelight; books whose pages haven’t disintegrated yet in the cave’s humidity. “X’s” on its wall say it’s mid-January. Deep underground it’s a constant…
Category: poetry
The Oracle Speaks — coffee kisses
coffee kisses coffee kisses,warm slow ocean,fire cloud, smokemy belly,make magic looknaked; bring desire’slaugh to color poet magnetic poetry kit
dVerse — Q215 — Return
Return How you lift in arctic winds, feathers reached, flit from limb, then furl in compact chassis. A-rested cling, bob and peck silky blacks; bill-mashed oil fires your engines. Bright chirps sound against bleached, drab winter canvas, promises from forebears, carrying on, returning through seasons. My mom always believed that cardinals sighted were those who…
FFF 56 (was dVerse — Q189 — Rouse Simmons) repost, update, synchronicity
November 23 in 1912, she, a schoonerbearing 5500 Christmas trees, was boundwest, across Lake Michigan for Chicago.Blizzard said no but lumber skipper said go.She foundered at Two Rivers; all sailors lost. November nights, when moon is bright, her ghost yet sails. [44 words] top image link Learn more about Rouse Simmons here. De Jackson (aka…
dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — art in nature (tanka)
Meadow Argus / Photographed in Solomon Islands / Michael Sammut furry mandala starry eyes of universe rest on tattered leaf transformation’s mystery an answer without question Melissa Lemay is today’s host for dVerse’ Tuesday Poetics. Melissa says: write an ekphrastic poem to one of the given photographs taken by Michael Sammut.
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Hold Tight
photo taken Dec 2023 Hold TightA struggle in 2024, a struggle since 1993, when I stopped smoking cigarettes and stopped starving myself. Letting go of a pack a day and fasting left a vacuum that filled with food. Hikes and bike rides, step aerobics and Lake Michigan body surfing, couldn’t – and can’t – keep…
FFF55 — Ninja Cat Toy (poem) and wood burning in winter 2024 (updated with new pics)
Ninja Cat ToyRubberesque, babycloud-shaped,with nubs on every surfaceexcept inside of boulder marble-sized oval big enough to fit a pawthrough to hold it.It sports light blue/pastel lime/blackribbons fashioned as hair or tailthat can be held by claws/fingerswhile engaged in solo/joint play.Now described, let’s verb it.Sold as a dental cleaner; it’s thatand more. She puts one paw…
Tao-Talk 