A Sijo is a Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka, comprised of three linesof 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables.Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar…
Spillwords.com presents: Author Of The Year 2023 Interview with Cindy Georgakas, a writer of words in poetry, prose and reflections of ... Source: Author Of The Year 2023 Interview My…
Written for Whimsygizmo: Quadrille #195 – Don’t Touch that Dial! (Stay andWrite a Poem) You say that under the noon heat asphalt softens and floods and that under a moon-blanched…
Funny how some hip people simply talk and talk and talkExhausting all the easy scales and saying nothing smartWe sashay onto the dance floor and sway to a single noteReMiFaSoLaTiDo…
The duration doesn’t matter, what matters is that you give your all to friendships—even if today all you have is a hole—such interstices sustain us. Happy friendship month.
Days of gorgeous spring-like skies suddenly got tangled up with winter clouds.(The signs were exciting for me and hubby). Before we knew it, Tokyo and thewider Kanto region was covered in…
Hotel de los corazones rotos–The hotel of broken hearts Hello, my precious Readers. Happy February. Yay! January was not a good month for me--the incidents here in my home countryfelt like…
The end of the month has been so much better than the rest of the month. So thanks so much for giving me something extraordinary to remember about January 2024.…
Happy full moon everyone. I owe the need to pen this one down *for you* to David of The Skeptic's Kaddishwebsite, who does not need another feather in his cap…
Written for De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) @dVerse Quadrille #193: Poems in a Pinch Somebody, Pinch Me I’m feeling pinchedand harriedfrom the ticking ofthe clockIt’s already half pastyesterday,I’m wound tight—I could…