Autumn equinoxes’ presence known and day creeps away far too soon. When daylight slips to parts unknown and we look to the light of the moon To comfort when the chill mist swirls; when small warm-blood things shiver in hope they’ll not be found by hunters that glide so silently through the ink. Ears attune…
Category: poetry
POPO2023 Day 1
Here we are again at the first of October. A month has gone by since the ending of the Poetry Postcard Festival 2023. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Cascadia Poetics Lab is now organizing the event that was originally founded by Paul Nelson . What happens is you register and pay your $$…
24 SSPC 1 — Autumn Equinox (Shubun) (1st wk Sept 22 – Oct 7)
Autumn sunset’s rain dry dirt drums from crust to mud; dawn sprouts wee mushrooms. top image: “Dawn Mushrooms” by Bryan Garnett kigo = autumn sunset Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Today we begin the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge. Colleen says: Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — fall equinox (haibun)
I take my daily stroll around the yard and notice the shift in color as summer theater packs up its costumes. Browns lift from the soil to the tips of flower stalks as prickly seeds that I gather into slowly filling ramekins. Bright-costumed sulphur cosmos depart, to creep their color along undergrowth and up into…
What’s Going On? — “Take This” (prayer)
Take this clutter from my house, my psyche, and the world. Strings are meant for symphonies, not marionette parodies. Mycellia woven tidy telegraphs, not cyber-marketing memes. Neural networks wired for survival, not rewired electronica. Intelligence for planet sustenance, not for ways to starve it. We’ve lost our way and suffocate in the poisons we hoard….
dVerse – Q184 — Smash
life comes with an expiration date.really, what are you waiting for?face it, careful doesn’t cut itwhen days are ticking out.smash your lips into itget them wet, sticky,salty, sweet, warmguzzle the tangbreathe everylast drop of it! top image link De Jackson (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De says:write a 44-work poem using…
dVerse Poetics — I Prefer Chiclets (updated with linked article)
Dennis Waterman Too many cups of coffee too many cigarettes have stained his pearls to yellow chiclets. Call me fickle, but I prefer their gleam to the harshness of fluorescent rows of selfie sickness’ glows. Sarah is today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics. Sarah wants us to write about yellow. For those unfamiliar with Chiclets, go…
Tao Talk 