Let grace blank the slatecradle tears and salve each acheto bless us forwardwe must leave curses in dustcultivate peace’s garden I listened to US Senator Bernie Sanders last night and please, take a few minutes out of your day to listen to what Bernie has to say. I grabbed Sting’s album, “Nothing Like the Sun”…
Category: poetry
dVerse — MTB — Fun with Anagrams — Permute
up tree temper erupt um er em put rum puree per ump permute meter peter rut rue temp tump term mure pree rete re meet me pure meet me true NOTE: My process was to first think of a word with 3 vowels and 4 consonants in it. I wanted it to be a verb….
24 SSPC 7 (1st wk) — The Beginning of Winter (Ritto) (Nov 7-21) — Autumn Storm
As November’s globe ticks its way to other orientations, long nights imbalance with ever-shortening light. Today, rain is forecast. Noon’s pregnant clouds occlude what scant light there is; and by five o’clock landscape is but blurry shadow as the temperature drops. Dusk, a dingy blank upon which nothing is writ even crows silent moon feels…
dVerse Poetics Nature’s Emissaries
How many would be smothered in their cribs to interrupt their trajectories? How many would be unburned at the stake? How many would be unhanging from trees? How many innocent souls would be unraped? Imagining a convoy of Chrononauts on the move Better than Ghostbusters, interrupting evil in its tracks; Confiscating kindling, ropes, and demonic…
dVerse — Prosery — Botched?
Snow would be the easy way out –Rita Dove, from “November for Beginners” Miranda’s rippled cleavage was pasted across banners of the e-zines that mattered. Just like the paparazzi to zoom in on a digital image and draw a red circle around it, with the headline, “Curdled Milk?” And why didn’t Mirage Photoshop her into…
season calls (tanka)
Still, woodland clearinggeese rise, through millennia,when the season callsour steps quicken to beat duskour short breath puffs of white mist video shot at Blandford Nature Center last weekend, which inspired the tanka
POPO2023 Pic of All Postcards Received and Cento Poem from them
As of today, I have received a postcard from almost every one of the 30 people on my list. That’s the best return rate by far of the three years of participation. Add in some bonus cards from Kerfe and Jules, and look at these beauties! The variety and formats, as in other years, have…
Tao Talk 