Art by Jared design Life is your televised game show. Spin the wheel of fortune to test your luck; make choices that can put you in jeopardy; starve alone for weeks in wilderness. Life isn’t something you can call in. You must be present to win. No reruns. “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy,” and “Alone” are…
Category: poetry
Rain Man revisited — a prayer for North America and all of her life forms
‘Twas that bright cloudless June When the doves flew away When cicada song rose in a menaced refrain When sunflowers bowed their heads in surrender When it seemed like we hadn’t had rain in forever We heard a kerplunked chipped wheel of a wagon and the rhythmic clip-clop of a shoeless horse draggin long before…
Tanka Tuesday 323 — Purple
Varied textures about Each garden in seasons Surely speak to senses States of wake and sleeping Everything under sun Lives to die; lives again Of bees and butterflies Favorites based on taste Yellow pollen pockets Or straw sipping nectar Unvaried their choices Revel in colored fills Pretty purple calls them Universal guidance Rely on divination…
dVerse — Poetics — The Quality of Being Alone
Tŝilhqox Biny, or Chilko Lake, facing North Alone is a state that each person chooses to reside in Unless you’re psychotic or otherwise out of your head Or last person standing after an apocalypse. Alone, a real challenge to find in densely populated places. Being alone has its own challenges in places that aren’t. When…
Kerfe’s RWG 12 — creator’s velvet mercy
through scarf of feathered boughsa path, portal of stout knotty pinesa line along splashing gurgles deep pools with dazzling glints spellbound invisible frogs watch as we, salvage from a broken world, in benumbed state, stop to channelthe magic current of healing connect bear snuffle undergrowth for grubsas does nibble new grass, obliviousto returning visitors, welcome…
When Love Finds You
Don’t ever go looking for love. It might find you. You can’t control who will bring it. You can sacrifice yourself to it, and maybe that’s ok. Who is to say what a life’s function should be? Is what or who you might be be enough to turn it away? It means being left with…
full moon 060223
hazy honey texturedefies my expectationsmarble stuck in tar Last night’s full moon was very different than the moon the night before. It was taken around the same time of night/morning. The mosquitos were swarming me so I couldn’t stay out to take more than 2 pics.
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