Traffic holding its breath, Sky a tense diaphragm –Seamus Heaney, from Twice Shy Madge returned to her cubicle after a carb-rich lunch with co-workers. She plopped into the ergonomic chair that often made things too comfortable – like today. The rhythmic movement of her head swiveling between hard copy and digital data on the twenty-inch…
Category: poetry
dVerse — MTB — Drought or Flood
Stagger home through early drizzle Sprite pizzle! Minute downpour fashions a crust Hard-packed dust. ”Jonesin’ for soak,” cry our parched plants Deadly dance. Why can’t showers show us balance? Flood one hemi, deny other Land-based water life forms brothers Sprite pizzle!, Hard-pack dusted, deadly dance. top image link Laura is today’s host at dVerse’ Meet…
Tanka Tuesday 332 — Larks Rise
image link larks rise, exultation of feathers harmonize, celestial and wise ready souls hear blooming over grasslands, larks fan, muted blossoms, empty, weightless brahmans leading souls home larks roost in heaven’s tree beyond thick cotton clouds that hide mist peak of mount when day is done Abhanga form Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka…
dVerse — Poetics — Trouble in paradise
Sitting here, still contemplating whether I should use the bottle of poison that I bought to kill the poison ivy that is slowly, inexorably, creeping up the siding of the house, into the flower beds, and slinking towards the back slider. I know that the poison will kill the plants. I also know, after, it…
dVerse Q181 — Q x 2
Tall walls and soundproofed ceilings;I wonder why art is caged in hushed,conditioned, dustless air, whether three hundred or a single year old.I sidle and snake my way, along and around Matisse’ traveling exhibit. Hesure knows how to make color pop. When I think pop, I think: Badfinger;a startling punch;…goes the weasel;green, red, and yellow soda;bubble…
Cardinal flowers and hummingbirds (tanka)
Cardinal flowersflag down thirsty hummingbirds;fizzy lifting drinkstransfix them; straw tongues sip andrecall drinks before feeders.
dVerse — OLN 343 — Quinzaine Questions
packet says false indigo why orange cosmos? should I care? in zucchini overload keep watering plants? who will eat? these peppers can ripen red why pick them still green? impatient? yesterday’s coffee now gone make another pot? call it good? ninety in the atrium why do I swelter? addiction? fridge bins full of fresh produce…
Tao-Talk 