#FF — Mother

PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Don and I met two years ago, at Pinky’s, where I work. He’d come in for a massage and paid extra for the happy ending. He’s been a regular since then. After a year, Don began bringing me gifts. After two, I began to look forward to his kind smile….

dVerse Poetics and Word Craft Poetry Tanka Tuesday — Eternally

Kneeling in church, as he whooshes by in his blood red brocade she breathes cinnamon and flounders between heaven and earth. He glances her beatific form in passing. For him it is her ginger locks, rolling down her slender back against the vanilla cream gown. Unholy unions will be revealed and punished. They have a…

dVerse — Quadrille 148 — The Struck Match

  She wasn’t sure whether it was the exhibition or watching the application of brush strokes of each work that obsessed her so. Was it knowing the painter’s paper trail body? Or the way his body moved… Origamic muse prismatic omnipotence imbued by each eye. top image link I decided to write a second quadrille…

TSM 194 — Til Death

Til Death Blind, fumbling amongst bramble I’m lost abandoned, bereft in enemy terrain without shoes, hungry, under cold heaven’s regard our love fast-fading sunshine to vacuum gloom your laugh seeps up in mist from your forever lie my tomb. Today’s poem is in the Waltmarie form, which is “a 10 line poem, any subject, even…

TSM 168 — Home (for Bob Dylan)

Photography by Artist, Jasper James Slapped by labels, sprinkled with stardust, and he’s worn the tread off of more than a few pair of boots. He’s snapped more strings than gum snapped at a bazooka joe convention. He’s been spelled by potions and powders, fondled by hungry groupies, and chiseled by more than a few…

#MM Music Challenge — Mr. Fantasy ripples…

Jim Adams is the dependable host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge.  Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” by Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, and use it for a short story, a piece of flash fiction, or a poem that you can share with the…

Coloring Club Plus — 10/23/19

  I chose this one from the album because it is the only one that Levon got writing credit for on it. Love for Levon: Benefit To Save The Barn was a concert held on October 3, 2012 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The concert was a tribute to the life…