Unbound (haibun)

granddaughter’s snow spiral I’ve been snowed in since Feb 12th.  I picked up what I’m thinking is the flu on the 10th and started showing symptoms on Valentines Day, right around the time it started snowing …. and snowing and snowing.  Too sick to get out there and clear the driveway after waiting until it…

dVerse OLN 378 Tingled

  TingledYou tingle meas you fall.Beam-fluttered,I shiver in yourtextured patterns.You come to meas you will,with your silverpuffed friendswho lie, theirdark smirkslove’s rebuke.Despite, I runnel you,now slinking under crust of ice. I thought of love between snow and weak-winter sun. Björn is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Björn gives us an optional prompt:So as…

TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge — Paradise (tanka puente)

Paradisegold light envelopspulses flesh in its rightnesspatience rewardedoblivious beyond heatinevitable ashes~Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.~ reality riselike bile from a sucker punchcurled in a sick bedtear-soaked pillow, remembersonly the shiny apple top image: “APPLES OF EDEN” by Aurika Piliponiene. ‪ Bridge quote is from Chuck Palahniuk, from his novel, “Choke.”…

The Oracle Speaks — Goddess Crush

Goddess Crush A woman watches the moonas luscious purple-pink mist, raw in panting,licks hot sleepy smell. Smoothing milky coolover gorgeous black hair,her head fiddles madlyas she shines,dressed in light.     original magnet kit

The Oracle Speaks — gorgeous day

smoothest to saythese black mists shineand dream deliriously,pound sweet honey stormin play, to crush and useour lathered blood as lake.a summer, sordid as love,licks me through music’sgorgeous day magnet poetry original kit top image originally found here

dVerse — Poetics — Letters of Love

Barb and Rod   when grey dulls life’s gleammind wandering back to bleaknessyour face, grace, returnsyou turn, I follow your lightblack numbness again vanquished   Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics.  Punam says:I think, we all have many, maybe hundreds, of unsent and unwritten letters inside us. So let’s write letters today. Write to…

Day 28 — OctWriPoMo — WORK and TRAIN

image link Today’s offerings are two poems in the Clarity Pyramid form.  The first is pretty clear, it is about a sense of belonging at my job, which is in a human service field.  The job is challenging, demanding, and would be impossible to do without the support of my co-workers!   WORK human comradeship…