It starts small, like the tinkle of the cat’s collar. It trembles as the flipped blinds show a row of light. It rises with the stack of iced snow on the bird bath. It trickles with water falling from the aquarium filter. It gurgles with this morning’s coffee pot promise. It flits with house finches…
Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard and dVerse OLN
Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:•Still Cold (yokan)/New…
#FF — Capsula Mundi
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Under normal circumstances, at life’s end funeral and burial arrangements would have already been finalized and notarized. These were not normal circumstances. I was only forty years old. My sons learned that the dental hygienist was an anti-masker in her off hours and had infected dozens during their routine cleanings….
dVerse — Poetics — Winter Rainbow
Winter Rainbow What do you call the color of sunlight on snow?A whiter white with flecks of sparkling prisms?Bright silver with contrasting greys of depth?Where corkscrewed plow has churned, itlooks like chopped gunmetal-colored cement. Fast-moving rust jerks, robotic in her searchfor milquetoast bits of kernels in mostly emptysunflower shells. Reds hit and run above herin…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #72 – February 16, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Ride the Divide: 2700 Miles Canada to Mexico (2010) Starring: Mike Dion, Michael ‘Mac’ McCoy, Steve King, Kevin Montgomery, Matthew Lee, Mary Metcalf-Collier, Steven Gleasner, Leighton White, Adrian Stingaciu, Reuben Kline, Kevin Hall, Dominic Scherer, Alan Goldsmith, Hunter Weeks Director: Hunter Weeks Genres: documentary Synopsis: imdb: “A…
dVerse — Prosery 21 — Sailor’s Song
I went out to the hazel wood / Because a fire was in my head.–from The Song of Wandering Aengus, by William Butler Yeats Leather felt strange on my feet again after six months, mirroring the feeling of stepping on dry land again. Circling gulls seemed to laugh at me as I navigated through the…
Music that Strikes a Chord — Them Crooked Vultures
I have to thank Steve for the Deaf for making me aware of this group. Dave Grohl on drums (from Foo Fighters and Nirvana) John Paul Jones — yes, that one! — on bass, Josh Homme on guitar and vocals (from Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss) and Alain Johannes on live performances. These…
Tao-Talk 