fragrant triggers sing their healing curve and nuance, hint of meaning lilies recall textured mem’ries treasures sprout from fearless gleaning curves and nuance, hints of meaning lost and found, their voices keening listened to release energies curves and nuance, hints of meaning lilies recall textured mem’ries Triolet form Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka…
Category: poetry
dVerse — Prosery — Playing to Win
image link The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart. by Valsa George, from “Winged Words“ Trauma rattles like bingo balls in a metal cage, trapped, praying for caller’s graced hand to reach in and release them in correct alignment. It’s almost six. Players shuffle in. Most sit horseshoed with their charms and…
Kerfe’s RWG 4 — Basking
Copperhead snake Mid-morning, a-stupored, I walked to the patio sipping hot cuppajoe in fuzzy bunny slippers. Plopping down in a wrought iron chair, I spied a copper snake wound round umbrella stem; like a glove she was. I raised her head; she put out a forked thread tongue to sniff my tangy unwashed scent. I…
dVerse — MTB/Form — Limbo
“Eternal Dance,” by geckobird I’ll admit to you, but to deny to all others my immortal pledge, my plum juicy love the sugar for my tea, crumpet joy of union as incarnations spin, seems dizzy curse through beings, puzzling karmic inequity as we swirl, flawed, an unsolvable jigsaw; at every chance meeting, while aeons flux…
Tanka Tuesday 314 — Shadorma series: earth turns
Winter’s End Thin fish soup, winter’s smile stretches grey and tight; we wait for colors to tiptoe in, warm again, springtime bright. Sunflower Giants sleep, yet seeds in soil’s shade; they dream tall, wait to wake, germinate, as end begins rise, ever stalkward. In Season Spring’s herds stir, winged, furred, scaled, and stemmed, sunclock hot,…
dVerse — Poetics — Hara-tsuzumi (Belly Hand Drum) (was quadrille 106)
It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute. —Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito Shaded sepia Bipedal bandit Bushy chase Big bouncing balls Pendulous paunch Youkai icon Kin to kitsune Debaucherous ninja Shapeshifter Picaresque player For human games Saucy cane rapper Visiting trickster Deals the cards Laid back fun…
dVerse Poetics — and then there was…
primary school student’s art based on Eric Carle collage Her muse fingers slip across glossy magazine pages searching: beyond articulate vibes shake puzzle pieces to populate her collage. She wonders if this is how gods do it. Head of bull, tail of tiger, feet of chicken, woolly barrel chest of buffalo. Clouds grey and winds…
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