Here, I offer you a string of shadorma (shadormae?) with a whimsy story for many more starry nights. Written for Tanka Tuesday, Ekphrastic Week.
No words, just wonderment... "Where flowers bloom so does hope."~ Lady Bird Johnson Quote.
I want to show you my lovely Tibouchina that's blooming alongside the black-eyed Susans. My fave colors in the yard. Oh yes, and an invented poetry form called Octelle. Hope you enjoy the poem. Happy Summering.
It's only August, but already I'm dreaming of migrating birds. Wishing them a safe return or visit to warm climes. And did you know this about their V formation? Perhaps we could learn how our energy is an asset. We, homo sapiens, are amazing too.
Awareness of the pleasantness of the moment makes for a day of here-spent hours. Let's be the peace we’re wishing for, the change we all need. As thoughts whizz through our thinker, let's think world peace.
Do you agree that nature is our way back to the divine? Methinkso: Even wandering through industrialized concrete jungles, one can find a spiritual moment. Do you listen? Enjoy your summer.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— We murder to dissect. ~ by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Let me introduce you to Medium.
A sad day for Japan today expressed with an Abhanga Poem to represent thunderstorm clouds that look like tussore-silk curtains over Japan. RIP, Former PM Abe.
Heal my fear-based thoughts, Heal my fear-based thoughts, Heal my fear-based thoughts. and replace all that mongering for better words, like joy, gratitude, compassion... Let's help each other and the world to heal.
Ekphrastic Poetry #WDYS on a lovely photograph that made me think of the poem, My Life With The Wave by Octavio Paz. Perhaps you can feel the ocean breeze?!?
"Let yourself become living poetry." ~ Rumi "You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." ~ Mary Oliver
Are you familiar with umeshu: fruity liqueur made from unripened Japanese plums? Steeped with sugar in distilled liquor. Well, I made some... 4kg, for next year.