As August begins, chipmunks are busy a-gathering, their cheeks bulging with seeds. They still make time for chase across the driveway, under the shrubs and back again. Butterflies swarm swarms of blossoms, welcoming affections of others of the same patterns in brief amorous encounters. Monarch caterpillars wander in solitude, grazing fuzzy milkweed leaves in lackadaisical […]
dVerse — Haibun Monday — August 2021
Britain enthusiastically adopted the Roman tradition of writing curses on lead (or sometimes pewter) tablets. Maybe that tells us something about the British character. Maybe it doesn’t. Either way, because lead doesn’t rust, they left us a record of daily life, or of one odd corner of it anyway, that we can snoop around in. […]
Curse tablets in Roman Britain
Hello Peeps! It’s been a long while, but I thought i’d get back on the SoCS horse, so to speak, since I am on summer break! Linda’s prompt this week: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last photo you took.” Take the last photo you snapped. What’s the first word that comes […]
#SoCS July 31, 2021 – Last Click
Ruby on board at Sunroad Resort Marina, San Diego Some summer breaks are uneventful for weeks at a time before an international trip happens. Weeks go by waiting for the big bang of adventure far, far away. Other summers, little trips happen–two days here, five days there–throughout the whole summer. This was my 2021 summer. […]
Dear Friends,
summer raineach tree and stonea shrinewhere crofters pray in peacefor this year’s golden harvest © Xenia Tran Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week, with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. PI Poetry Prompt: Shrine Carpe Diem #1848: Harvest Haiku: Kinship by whippetwisdom […]
Tanka: Shrine
What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Color of Food: Mustard Glazed Rainbow Carrots! Have you noticed carrots now come in rainbow colors? How exciting is that?! It’s not only the color that catches your attention, it’s the difference in flavor. Traditional orange carrots have a certain sweet earthiness we’re all familiar with, whether you eat […]
Mustard Glazed Rainbow Carrots
Anger and rage,blood bubbles then boils.Heated flushed face,emotions recoil.Headaches vibrate,tears moisten the soil.Take center stage,composure soon broils. One simple phraseshoots me to the sun.Arms become rays,my words a shotgun.Past happy days,use my mind to run.Peace swims my way,anxiety stuns. Angel embrace,provides a restart.Kissing my face,mending my scorned heart.Veins flow with grace,all tensions depart.My serene place,offers […]
Enraged
Crisp white wine, crystal blue water, and the kind of existential angst which feels so familiar as to almost have become my signature vibe. Summer skin and the warm scent of coconut oil. He tugs me close, turns me around, and ties the strings of my bikini bottoms back together after having untied them an […]
I Know It’s Hard, Baby (audio)
Persephone’s bedchamberor was itBertha Mason?Here, where she went madrending her hair and whatnotthe way women dowhen the womb wandersnothing for it thenlock them upleave food outside the doorhear her howling at the moonno one would ever love herno never, never, neverexcept perhapsthat Darklordwho calls to pull her underthe bedis a chamberpotabovea crystal chandeliertake the rope…
Persephone’s Bedchamber #poetry #dVerse
A landay What’s the deal with religious people who swear; lie; cheat; steal; abuse; rape; perpetuate hate? The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. –William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
Religious? or: Religulous?
World Era 