Dotty (Shelter Cat) You hear my voice from your warm lap bed and turn, tentative, hopeful that I’m talking to you. Your pea green, black-slitted eyes meet mine. Yes, they say, to you. I pat and stroke your silk, dotted fur, feel soft gravel of your ricket purr. Today’s Friday Favorite Feature is Dotty, one…
Category: poetry
dVerse OLN 360 The Botany of Desire
succulents and fernseach pretty in their own wayoffering themselves While out running errands I decided to take a run to the now-open-for-the-season mega greenhouse store. It would take hours to photograph every area of the place, so I focused on a few kinds of plant while searching for a plant tray, a pothos, and…
24 SSPC 31 (1st week) — Grain Rain (April 19 – May 4) Koku — hungry, captivating, sound sleepers
hungry nested atop, myrtle spurge blooms baby birds awake; faimed at noon, sway, seeking sun’s warm respite from spring gusts ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ captivating pear blossoms, tiny promises hold garden strollers hostages filling us with deep spring’s tranquility ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ sound sleepers tomato, pepper seeds planted weeks ago; gift of life granted seedlings’ blessed dreams under April’s full…
dVerse — Poetics — Mr. Whiskers
“Untitled” by Louis Wain Born in a barn, to a rangy queen on her tenth litter and a tom with fuzzy dice balls and only one ear, he clawed and scrambled for the teat as if his life depended on it – and it did – six litter-mates didn’t. Farmer Jones’ son, a kindly sort,…
dVerse MTB Pantoum (2nd) Ode to Earth Day 2024
Ode to Earth Day 2024 When winter’s terminal quiescence resurrects into spring, an insistence in tiptoes of leaf, blade, and sprout, colors creep in from waking corners. Resurrected into spring, an insistence calls beaks, close-branched to distant ocean lands; colors wing from waking corners to join, rustle, sing, court, nest, in celebration. Chick beaks from…
The Oracle Speaks: Bitter Eggs
bitter eggs bitter eggs boil black, never shine. hot spray lives on juice of less, smearing sausage sweats; trudges, rusted lazy meat. The Oracle had an unusual message today. One I will have to ponder. I used the Original set of words today. The collage is from 2019.
dVerse — MTB (pantoum) — Choosing Green
Choosing Green two roads diverge, each green;just one that you can choosefrom two to choose from streams.short win twists; turns to lose. just one that you can choose;with devil that is greed,short win twists; turns to lose.the cost? to watch love bleed. with devil that is greed,Gaia cries in despair.the cost, to watch love bleed,in…
Tao Talk 