lotus stem topples like tree translucence rests on water bridge between heaven and earth dragonfly drowses joe pye and bee balm arise, fragrantly mesmerizing pollinator receptors to twitching magnets red hot sun plays hide and seek after surprise thunderstorm glimpse grandfather behind pine coolly run away kigo used: dragonfly drowses, full blossoming wildflowers, hot red…
Category: poetry
The Oracle Speaks — Gentle Paths in Summer
Gentle Paths in Summer Earthly murmur, soft sanctuary, sweet quiet sun in shade; summer season, bloom sublime. Moon climb to fruit in air, blue dusk breath of lonely secrets’ ancient poet path. Nature kit magnets
dVerse — OLN365 — Reciprocity
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions. –Pablo Neruda, from The Wide Ocean Reciprocity If you were to give … me … fruit of your gifts and destructions I would give you the same — but the choice is, as always, yours.. Remember one-way streets…
24 SSPC 43 (2nd week) The Beginning of Midsummer: Growing Heat (0707-0721)
Snapshots for Midsummer’s AlbumWilted birds and flowersmust patiently waitas black hose flushes smoldering hot waterto cool; to quench thirstythroats and flood parched beds.When long days overstaywhen shy short nights hideeyes long for moonlight in midsummer darknesstwinkling stars and fireflieslost in cool’s magicI grab the bigger canto fill with rec gas;cutting the grass has become avocation.Robins…
dVerse — Prosery Monday — Karma’s Little Helper
every day unfurls as it must–from Oolong, by Adrienne Su Karma’s Little Helper She sweats on the front porch swing, listening to wind swish treetops, catching whiffs of lavender. It is summer’s zenith, when green screams its loudest. Sunlight roars yellow. The palette’s remainder supports in dulcet murmurs. Reverie carries her to a summer when…
The Oracle Speaks — sitting
There is mad beauty in life’s boil; but if we sit, singing, cool & sweet like spring water, a symphony whispers. magnet poetry original set
dVerse — MTB — Played and Constrained
“The Garden of Eden” by Shan Jiang Played and ConstrainedAfter the set-up,the first guilt trip,chafing fig leaves,Eve’s cheeks blushedat Adam’s first purposeful rising;joins in with paw and spawn.Joys yelled to Heavenin union’s orgasmic dawn.Original abode,a peaceable kingdomclimate-controlled;dwarved under mighty boughs,no concept of outside,above, or below.After being given God’s boot,they barefooted blindly after Crow.Generations multiplied and…
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