Autumn equinoxes’ presence known and day creeps away far too soon. When daylight slips to parts unknown and we look to the light of the moon To comfort when the chill mist swirls; when small warm-blood things shiver in hope they’ll not be found by hunters that glide so silently through the ink. Ears attune…
POPO2023 Day 1
Here we are again at the first of October. A month has gone by since the ending of the Poetry Postcard Festival 2023. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Cascadia Poetics Lab is now organizing the event that was originally founded by Paul Nelson . What happens is you register and pay your $$…
Friday Favorite Feature 6 — The Church of Tarantino podcast and Mary Ramos, Tarantino’s Music Supervisor
Quentin Tarantino I randomly happened across mention of, “The Church of Tarantino” podcast on facebook and immediately went to Spotify to find it. Have only listened to the prologue so far, which I will include at the bottom of this post. Very much looking forward to listening to others who love Tarantino go through his…
#FF — Baby Blue
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast Her favorite color is blue. She wonders why it is so. Had she been an otter in another incarnation? Perhaps an eagle, gliding mountain updrafts? Maybe a butterfly that loved the nectar of delphinium blossoms best? Or maybe it is because she wears it like seal skin, suffocating her, squeezing…
24 SSPC 1 — Autumn Equinox (Shubun) (1st wk Sept 22 – Oct 7)
Autumn sunset’s rain dry dirt drums from crust to mud; dawn sprouts wee mushrooms. top image: “Dawn Mushrooms” by Bryan Garnett kigo = autumn sunset Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Today we begin the 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge. Colleen says: Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — fall equinox (haibun)
I take my daily stroll around the yard and notice the shift in color as summer theater packs up its costumes. Browns lift from the soil to the tips of flower stalks as prickly seeds that I gather into slowly filling ramekins. Bright-costumed sulphur cosmos depart, to creep their color along undergrowth and up into…
Project Ant Part 3 092423
The old raised peony bed is no more. Finished it off today. Decided to bag up instead of burn the detritus. Even though the burn ring has a dome screen, all it would take is one spark carried by the wind to light up the dry litter in the area. I methodically wheelbarrowed 4 times…
Tao-Talk 