PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox Our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary gift to ourselves is a weekend at the mountainous inn where we’re to spend our honeymoon. Hours pass along the ever-winding-ever-rising road through green tunnels of trees. We’re both relaxed and smiling, our hands lightly touching as the breeze blows through the windows of the car….
dVerse — Poetics — Ernest Hemingway quote provides inspiration — Groundhog Day
It is very hard to write this way, beginning things backward… –The Torrents of Spring (1926) Standing at the edge of the water, alone, at sunset, remembering the innumerable times you begged me with a happy, hopeful smile to come to watch them with you and I declined. And all the rest too. There is…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — Solstice 2021
Earlier in the day, I spent hours at the dentist, having the old, steel-fortified, half-broken crown of tooth five sawed off, having a digital imaging done for a new one, waiting for a reductive printer to create a new one that was then coated and “cooked,” then having it snugly fitted onto the old bone…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #89 – June 22, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! This week a couple of more light-hearted ones along with one dud and one decent detective film. Life of Crime (2013) Starring: John Hawkes, Jennifer Aniston, Yasiin Bey, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Will Forte, Mark Boone Junior, and many more Director: Daniel Schecter Genres: crime, comedy Synopsis:…
minimalist photography and poetry — baubles of death
Clinging to life arebaubles of death; bright colorsforgotten sometimesbut never shaken. Slowly,we return to from where we came… Kate says if inspired by her nature photo to link to her page. I am, so….
TSM 165 — Serve
You, an ambassador,might like a long string of pearls.You’re gonna be the Devil, prancing on the stage.They may call you chief,but a trooper gonna have tobe Lord, have to be landlord.Preacher Pride bribes somebody’s heir.Zimmy, no matter what you say,you’re gonna have to serve. Today’s offering is an erasure poem gleaned from Bob…
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1845 Troiku Challenge: Summertime — At the lakeshore
at the seashorewind of summer through my hairthe shortest night at the seashoretoes dug deep in wet sandcampfire smoke on breeze wind of summer throughmy hair, stringy and wet;tired from wavejumps the shortest night —lie in the long sunset; entwined on fuzzy blanket top photo: “Stormy Sleeping Bear Sunset,” by Aubrieta V….
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