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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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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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
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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
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To Write Nature Poetry You Need to Be Subsumed First
First published at Blue Insights Publication on Medium as "How To Write A Nature Poem" Won't you check it out to see what you think?
August 4, 2024
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When Summer Comes On Too Strong
When my keenness for food dwindles, nature’s produce isle sits outsidefrom kale and lettuce to new sproutscarotenoids turn to Vit-Aprotects the skin from UV raysstrengthens skin's guard against the sunthe…
August 3, 2024
Petals of Haiku: An Anthology
A beautiful collection of brief moments in time Petals of Haiku: An Anthology—174 pages of pure joy. It features the work of over 160 talented poets. My purchased copy of…
August 2, 2024
Perennial Like Spring
✅As recent as the other dawningthe violets peeped from the groundto color the stiff cold gray—soon, over the prairie fanning Plum blossoms of white and pinkturned green on the breast…
August 1, 2024