Sunflowers Tanka Prose For The Beginning of Autumn
We're talking sunflowers at Tanka Tuesday today. What an iconic flower !
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August 16, 2024
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Giving Back: Insight Into One Poem Shared with Author Drema Drudge
In July 2023, In The Shadow of Rainbows debuted on Amazon and I receivedirreplaceable support from this WordPress community. In that light, I'd like tolend support to a few of…
August 15, 2024
lily (Lilium album): flowering stem--Openverse
Dectina Refrain: Ah! How Many Things!
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
August 14, 2024
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A Heroic Sonnet: Oh Home!
Of compasses and things that still brim you over when you think of them. I hope you enjoy this Heroic Sonnet.
August 13, 2024
Poetry: Crystals At Their Core
smooth, swollen, and scouredlike pebbles in river bedsmemories I hold dearly populate my head one or two are disfigured—rough, metamorphic, and wornlarger-grained and ponderous;might have crystals at their core those I…
August 12, 2024
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Got Five Minutes? Provoking The Question: What Are You?
Note: August 1st through 7th is International Clown Week. I'm days late but still wish to tell you about these clowns. Enjoy
August 11, 2024
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Masticadores USA–A Book Review: Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987-2023
Let me tell you about this newly published author. Please read.
August 10, 2024
Hey, you lookin' at me? Image: Openverse.
Senryu: My Big Fleeting Moment of Enchantment–Summer Gratitude to HOTEL by Masticadores
Thanks Hotel by Masticadores. Senryu focuses on the awkward moments in life making the human, not the world around them, the subject.
August 9, 2024
Earth and Sky Show: Photo by S.U
As We Sweat Into Autumn: The Four O’Clocks
This week at Colleen's Tanka Tuesday they're talking about Autumn. Oh MY!How wonderful that sounds... here, no signs of that being remotely so. As far as I can tell, nothing…
August 8, 2024
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Jarring The Mozzies On The Porch
Laid back on rockers on the porchsupper done, the dishes done,it's easy now that they are twothe dim-lit house stands silentthey brandish a long herb garnito jar mozzies in one…
August 7, 2024
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Aglow Like The Summer Sun
hot midday hourssunning under Sun-flowers she mimics the sun Copyright © selma 🎐🎐🎐 This haiku was inspired by William Blake's poem Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the…
August 6, 2024
Sending Heart Balm To You Over There
From the highest point of the mountainAt the clearing where spring arrives firstI look to the sky and out to the sea,And wave at boats going to far-off shores Each…
August 5, 2024