Alicanto full, she gleams pretty beacon in Atacama promise of richesfevered followers get lostsea of bones moan at midnight I’m the host of dVerse’ Poetics Tuesday writing about a legendary bird found in the deserts of Chile. This image has made me a fevered follower!
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Pamola, Arise!
Pamola Pamola Arise!Please, my people, do not weep;they are gone, yet not gone.Giants rest in their keepsgathering strength from our hopes and from their dreams.A day will come, when onceagain they will rise.Once again; you will seePamola survey his domainperched atop Katahdin.Aerily he rhymes his wings,drummed beats to driveback greedy trespassers.Vengeful against violatorshis wings whip…
dVerse Q237 — ZFG
image link ZFGShe used to say it when corrected,criticized,warned,reminded,advised,otherwise suggested;as a child,a teen,adult;as a mother,employee,partner;from a friend,sometimes an enemy,a cop,a government:“I give zero fucks.”And she did as she pleased. Melissa Lemay is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Melissa wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word zero. This poem is written with…
Theremin, Anyone?
Theremin I was scrolling along when I came across a NYT article with podcast and thought it was worth a share. I remember when Steve, from Song of the Day for Today, introduced me to the music of Leaf Rapids and I learned that cool sound in at least one of the songs was the…
#SLS — Jump into the Fire by Harry Nilsson from Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)
I wanted to post Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain so bad for this week’s prompt but decided to look for something else, and I kept scanning until this one clicked. It is a song on a celebrated album of excellent tunes. Harry Nilsson had more talent in his pinky than most have in their entire bodies…
FFF 60 — The Analogues & The Analogues Sideshow
The Analogues The Analogues first came on my radar when I was looking for George Harrison’s song, Ding Dong Ding Dong and I came across their cover of it. HERE is the write-up where I first mention them. It says it’s a repost, but not sure from when other than the other times I posted…
25 mph winds (power back on 3:50 a.m.)
a rumble grumbles at windowsgrey of day makes visibleafter a night of yew diggingsiding outside of the bedroomtoppled tree power outageseems imminent. fluffy snowblown back, forth, up, and downpatchy white and green groundcoffee sips empty the potawake but all I want to dois dream in my warm bedof future summer beachesit’s the day before T’giving.I…
Tao Talk 