with ikebana crystal moment magnified all else stripped away past and present disengaged tomorrow’s death unconceived ikebana defined Note: this arrangement was on a counter near the coat racks at FMG this past Tuesday. There are always beautiful arrangements there. Not that coat racks aren’t pretty, but I finally figured out how to use the…
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The Oracle — tanka
sing more like bluebird giggle at our song between find love essential whisper happy flower breath wonder makes raining laughter
dVerse — OLN 351 — Christmas Cactus Thanksgiving
taken today november blossoms soul shines, white and pink manna early christmas lights plugged into sun, offering priceless, remembering thanks taken today taken 111923 Grace is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Grace offered a possible topic of food, which got me thinking about how flowers are manna for the soul, especially in November.
24 SSPC 9 (1st wk — Nov 22 – Dec 6) Light Snow — Shosetsu
November’s Hourglasses donning hoody and quilted vest, she makes her way out to the mailbox. a pale, weak sun washes cold; no relief from wind, no warmth found between junk mail. in disappointment she turns. her steps scuff gravel gray path of the forgotten across the globe, on her deathbed, a woman mourns there’s no…
24 SSPC 8 (2nd wk) — The Beginning of Winter (Ritto) (Nov 7-21) — global warming theme (disturbing image warning)
the first month with sleetremains to be seen; it’s moot.snow dropped its blanket,pulled from Mother Nature’s hat;random, crazy bingo balls late winter gardenappears early Novembercrazy bingo ballswhere doom, rather than luck, rulesMother Nature’s imbalance blanket by the firewinter where icebergs existdistant memoriestimes before drought and floods rulebefore bears became extinct tanka formtop image link Colleen…
Friday Favorite Feature 12 — Plea for Peace
Let grace blank the slatecradle tears and salve each acheto bless us forwardwe must leave curses in dustcultivate peace’s garden I listened to US Senator Bernie Sanders last night and please, take a few minutes out of your day to listen to what Bernie has to say. I grabbed Sting’s album, “Nothing Like the Sun”…
season calls (tanka)
Still, woodland clearinggeese rise, through millennia,when the season callsour steps quicken to beat duskour short breath puffs of white mist video shot at Blandford Nature Center last weekend, which inspired the tanka
Tao Talk 