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…
Category: poetry
FOTD 28th March 2023: Dandelion — Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
Just a lonely dandelion growing by the wayside where its seed fell and began to grow. FOTD 28th March 2023: Dandelion FOTD 28th March 2023: Dandelion — Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss seeing Pat’s picture of the dandelion inspired my poem: small sun portendsold man winter’s recedingPersephone, rise!
Tanka Tuesday 313 — Spring To-Be
April’s burst slumbers yetin today’s plaid of sticksweaving the sky; dry skinssway in March breeze. Woven with grey/pink/white,tall coats frame ratty fields;their windbreak blanket shieldstender green roots. Chickadees, blue jays hop;flutter bright spots amonguncolored page — unsungSpring yet to-be. Abhanga form Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says:This week, share the view…
Tanka Tuesday 312 — Ekphrastic Tanka
Claude Monet, “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” Red blossoms dangle, pink lipstick forget-me-nots line memory lane; taste of our kisses linger, perfumed eternal summer. Tanka form Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says: 💐 This week, using the painting as your inspiration, please write either a syllabic poetry form or a freestyle…
Kerfe’s RWG — Sable Rot
Flagellant attempt to laser clinging cobwebs only saddens. Wasteful envious beams slung by glistened snails decorate a selfish hobby that crawls through slime trails. Fallacious rings of tainted tree memory appears closer in rear view. Let sable rot perish. Past shall waste no more of my ink. I finally made time to write a poem…
dVerse Poetics and Tanka Tuesday 311 — Variegated
‘OSTARA – Spring Equinox’ is a painting by Annie Louvaine Celebrating the Spring Equinox festival on the Pagan wheel of the Year. Represented by the Goddess Ostara her story goes that she found a frozen bird, she brought it back to life by transforming the dead bird into a Hare. each year the Hare lays…
dVerse Prosery — Immersed
cdnb.artstation.com In space in time I sit thousands of feet above the sea From May Sarton, “Meditation in Sunlight” We live under the waves. Flood and fire made us choose. Would we focus our last gasps to breaking free of the sky; or would we submerge and return to our mammalian predecessors’ domain? A few…
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