Poetry Postcard Festival 2025 went from July 4 to August 31. The hosts ask that we wait a month before sharing our poems and postcards. This year I chose to create the postcards with paint and paper collage. It’s been so enjoyable to create the cards along with the poetry. perspective chromatic contrastsof triangulatinga canvasinto…
TNG 92 — #214
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game.
dVerse Haibun Monday — September End Holiday
September End Holiday They don’t bother waiting until dusk to come. They’ve learned the field behind the house and the backyard, where the fruit trees spread their heavy-laden arms, are safe for them and their young. Even so, they remain vigilant and know deep cover is close by if any sight, sound, smell feels of…
#SLS — So Much Potential!!! (previously Women Music March 2022 – Day 31 – Detroit’s Own: Karen Neal of Inside Out, Thrall, Queen Bee, and Beyond!)
I first heard Karen Neal when she was on myspace as part of the Queen Bee trio. I featured her and her musical journey as a kickass bass player, singer, and performer back in Women Music March in 2022. When I saw Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, I immediately thought of her….
FFF 53 — This Tuesday at fmg
It’s a beautiful time of the year at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (affectionately known as fmg.) Granddaughter has been more interested in the play area with the raised runways and winding paths as there are always kids there that can run together, play hide and seek, etc. This week, though, she said yes…
dVerse OLN 392 — Night Music
The Sleeping Gypsy, by Henri Rousseau Night Music In respite of cool desert sand,emptied flagon, and full moon,dreams prowl, sleek, well-fed,wide awake, tickling my toes,pulling strings, weaving iconsto archetypes made manifest. I am a traveler, cloaked in rain-bow, charred under daybright;yet further landscapes openin shadows of music’s night. Grace is today’s host for dVerse’ Open…
#FF — Road to Heaven
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Road to Heaven Susie and Derek met as young’ns. Susie’s dad was a preacher on the tent revival circuit, and Derek’s made sure the trucks kept a-going and the tent didn’t blow over in the OK winds. Every evening, before Papa Ted preached his fire and brimstone, Susie, Derek, and…
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