"I'm fed up," I told it,"I think I'd like to see others."Packed my bag and my mementosbut it insisted, for old times' sake,to walk me to the bus stop.A week…
if when you leavemy smile you seeand not the griefyour leaving bringsthink not my woundswithin are healed,those are entrenchedwhere you can't seethey shall bear bloomsin ample timesubmerge the scarsroused like…
Spirals: here’s a Fibonacci on Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being: my favorite section.
The way it ‘seems’ to work now, you cannot view videos through the Reader—forsafety reasons. Unless you’re reading from your desktop. If on iPhone, please clickthe globe 🌎 once or…
Written for Tanka Tuesday: 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 37, 6/4/24,Part I, The Time of Planting Grains (June 6 – 19) Today, June 04th.What a lovely picture, Colleen. I…
This post is a response to Sadje’s What do you see # 241- 3rd June, 2024 prompt. Won’t you join too? https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2024/06/03/what-do-you-see-241-3rd-june-2024/ Does this picture, Image credits by ColinMaynard @…
“Alone, silently—the bamboo shootbecomes a bamboo” ~ SANTŌKA on a bamboo shootunder the low purple lighta crow sits alone© selma The above haiku is a leftover from the other day…
Did you get one too?The many-leaved letter, dropped in your yard.Of course you did—and there's nodoubt—they're all signed by God.Even the driver with the interrogatingthumb got one.He seems satisfied, happy.And…
Haiku Invitation This week’s haiku invitation is to write a haiku or senryu about a seasonal insect. Share your haiku in the comments below, or post on your page and…
“…and the blue skywas awash with colorless peacocks,” ~ Kenji Miyazawa, Preface to Spring and Ashura*** This week for #TankaTuesday we’re in the second week of the season of FineWeather: May 20 – June…
Written for The Skeptic's Kaddish writing challenge posted on May 22, 2024where the PoM is Suzanne. (thanks for the lovely prompt, Suzanne). Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing! I. The…