Sun Bathing Sunlight’s magnet pulls our clothes off as if metal. Skin burned in toaster. Our beach blankets lie close enough to cool wet sand to feel the wind’s chill. All-sized birds sunbathe; regardless, clothing optional – tan lines or no? Surf’s constant shushing is sunbather’s lullaby — soft blanket’s cradle. Sunscreen is poison; sunlight…
dVerse — Laurie Lee poet passage alchemy — Animal Kingdom Commodity
image link Laura is the host of dVerse today. Laura says: The Challenge therefore is to CHOOSE ONE of the extracts of [Laurie Lee’s] prose … and with your own alchemy, turn it into poetry. I chose to follow your tips, Laura, and used unexpected adjectives in a quatrain form with 9-syllable lines (one has…
Amos Moses
Mrs. Sweet had been teaching kindergarten for thirty years, and in all of those thirty years, she had never come across a more disruptive and dedicated-to-violence child as Amos Moses. Mrs. Sweet would watch Amos out of her room’s window in the morning before school opened. Amos would throw pea-sized pebbles that the playground was…
Coloring Club Plus — 6/25/19
The pictures today do not reflect the musical selection, but I hope that you enjoy both. Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on April 13, 1973. The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album…
Twittering Tales #142 – 25 June 2019 — Still Alive
Photo by sasint at pixabay.com Still Alive In the year 2525, humans are still alive – the same humans. In 2100, medical technology leapt by millenia with help from visitors from a planet on the other side of the sun. Bionic gene technology made us immortal. All humans have been sterilized. I just had my…
Kwaang
Harrison pressed the buzzer at the night dry cleaners and a voice came over the intercom, “Pick-up or drop-off?” “Drop-off” “Number of items and how many pair of pants?” “17 and 7” A buzzer sounded and Harrison entered the small shop. The disembodied voice over the intercom belonged to a small, wrinkled, bald man who…
Imagination Plantation Challenge: The Annual Biggleton Boat Race.
Welcome to Rivertown USA, where we are the cookie cutter small town like that which dots every state by the thousands. It’s a mish-mash, with no thought or planning going into its layout, each building a testament to whatever petty council members sat at the table for its time. Every bridge looks different, the streets…
Tao-Talk 