here is where river meets pond and pasture, forever resting there in my memory; a peaceable kingdom where I journey back to childhood summers when we fished from the dinghy using lines without worms; when swans swam closer. we trailed the cows home at dusk and slept well. Adjusted Nonet form. top image: Wivenhoe Park,…
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Day 3 — OctWriPoMo — *HUGH and also linked to Desperate Poets
image link Today’s entry is Day 3 creation for the OctWriPoMo. It diverges from the daily prompt. I started writing it last week, on the day Hugh Hefner died. Please note it is not for readers under the age of 18. HUGH “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream,” –Hugh Hefner A…
Day 13 — OctWriPoMo and dVerse OLN — The Two Harveys (and now Desperate Poets)
Harvey One Harvey the Pooka with Jimmy Stewart Harvey Two Harvey Weinstein and Olivia Wilde There are 3 selections today. First, The Two Harveys, then a freestyle, then a haiku. Again, these are for mature readers over the age of 18. One is a rabbitTwo is a snakeOne is invisibleTwo is a flake One is…
dVerse — Q180 — We’re Swimming
Creeping beastie any form be it slipping ‘neath a door swirling ‘round as morning fog drifting in as morphing cloud sinking bullets drenching rain chilly slides sheets of ice dainty fluff crystal snow constitutes each bag of bones swimming in it our water home De aka WhimyGizmo is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De…
The Weekly Smile 072423
I would have to say my biggest weekly smile in the last 7 days was to finish sending out poetry postcards for POPO2023 (Poetry Postcard Festival 2023.) How it works is you register and pay your registration fee ($15) and in return you are sent a list with your name and the names of 31…
nature haiku
still along spines a green baby monster waits for dinner
Tanka Tuesday 329 — Mourning Doves
you may call them turtle doves; monogamous pairs yet menage a trois at times, during courtship games when wings whistle on take-off, flying fast and straight they live thirty years or more and stay through seasons their streamlined yet pudgy forms, of silk, milked cocoa forage seeds with strut and peck, filling crop caches to…
Tao Talk 