June in May May dressesbright with June’s summer blossoms;bees fill their pocketbooks;robins hop tall grassfor noisy worms;wrens sing trees. seox form kigo used: summer blossoms, robins hunting worms, birds singing Note: the big/tree lilacs have bloomed and gone a couple of weeks ago. The top image is of one of the dwarf lilacs that…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — eternal landscapes
Eternal Landscapes I remember everything in my grandparents’ yard, from towering hundred years’ oak to a field of lily-of-the-valley. Oriental poppy and fuschia-hued peonies reached for the sun along the property line rough brick fence. Rose of Sharon to the left side of many-windowed front room. Behind them, in the shade of pines, a stump…
To Chris, One of the Angels (was#FFFC — Angels Unaware)
I’m reposting this in remembrance of the passing of Chris Cornell 7 years ago today. First posted 11/25/2019. I was forty-two years old when the bus hit me. I died instantly, suddenly finding myself floating upwardly to that place that you only know is real once you’re headed there. One of the first things I…
The Oracle Speaks — Light Melt
like the universemake not secretdark cup o’ nighthard as glassfated must dazzlemelt ocean icein a smile top image “Large Parrot Screams Color,” by Jim Dine, installed at fmg This poem came from The Poet Kit. Today I bought the botanical kit and can’t wait to try it out.
Doodads — Saturday Stroll in and out 051824
First pic is of the dawn redwood, now a year old. I learned that they have leaves that look like evergreens but they drop them in the fall, like larch. The tallest one, you can see the bright green on the stem/trunk which is the new growth this year. I also planted some seeds from…
Friday Favorite Feature 34 — fmg 050724
Since it’s been so busy I’ve been behind in posting, reading, and processing pics taken. I went through the pics from 050724 yesterday while taking breaks in working in the yard. As you will begin to see, I share pics of Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park (fmg) often but you will rarely see repeats,…
dVerse — MTB — Cloud Fish revisited
Memories like floating on puffsin cortico-limbic fashion;cloud dandelions, blown in huff,soar and dive to feel-triggered whimsto tumble, jumbled in the scuff.Exhausted, yet they rise againto disperse, scattered to the rough.Mere specks with their sails unfastened,return to cosmic hieroglyphs. magic 9 form Grace is today’s host of dVerse’ Meeting the Bar. Grace would like us to…
Tao-Talk 