PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Ta-da! “Honey, I have a surprise for you.” Laney notes an excitement in Jones’ voice she hasn’t heard since they’d seen a white buffalo in Montana. “Can you give me a hint?” “A teensy one. Remember you told me I’d better have something to fill the vacuum with when I…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Snow Siren Sea
Snow Siren Sea I like its brightness on scape, white bleaching in stillnessmy warm house like a cozy ship, through portholes gaze uponfrozen sea, where I imagine, bundled up, winter sailor, I braveto swim through it with muk-a-luks to island of parting siren.Warming frozen lock with mittenedpaws, it blessedly clicks.Oh memory, ice solid, that indeed…
dVerse Prosery Monday — Final kiss
Bury me with the lies I told.–Alejandro Escovedo, from “Bury Me“ Final Kiss We grew up as neighbors. Your folks and ours were best friends. Moms canning peaches together every summer. Dads on the same bowling league. Remember when we all got Stingrays with banana seats? I remember it started in 9th grade, when we…
#TNG 108 — tree
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game. Usually I put the # she gives into the media search box and choose from the pictures that show up. Judy also gives us the option of: If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words…
#SLS “Forever’s No Time At All” written by Katie McInnerny and sung/acoustic by Billy Nicholls from Pete Townshend’s, Who Came First (partly repost)
As I lie amongst the heather bedHigh above the ocean’s roar Looking first through my own digital catalogue for songs with Time in them, I happened across this album and this song. I did a post on it back in March 2025. The next part is from the original post: Max from PowerPop posted…
What Within Us?
what within us? white men, dark suitsred ties, white shirtsarmy of pain dealerstearing apart our homesleaving us to wander, wonderwhat within uskeeps us chainedunder such vile rule? Steve’s post today inspired me to share a poem I’ve been working on for a few days. Please take a few moments to read Steve’s post and my…
haiga for winter
This was first published in 2022. Earlier in the week, all of the snow had melted. It started again a couple of days ago and hasn’t stopped since. It is steady and heavy. Spring seems so far away. cold, ever visiting impossible to ignore bones creak in the wind
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