Tag: dVerse
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Cheering Down the Darkness: a #Quadrille #haibun
So little to celebrate. Raging wildfires. Persecuted refugees. Genocidal shootings. A hate-frothing darkness threatens to swallow all. For what can we cheer? That light shines in the darkness. That Love drives out hate. That we can. Holy Days another lit candle piercing the gloom for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #70: Poems…
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November 11, 2012: a #TBT .@ImageCurve #Haibun
We make it to the Veteran’s Day concert at West Point. The storied USMA band plays melodies dating back to “Chester”, the most popular drum and piper tune during the Revolutionary War. The music charms, the slideshow entertains, but where are the Jazz Knights? Then I hear Big Band music from the World War II…
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Phoenix Song: a #TankaTuesday (11/27/18) #TankaProse
Long past time to put this chill in the past gather the pyre ignite the consuming blaze that restores the life taken The first crackles of flame yield a tendril of smoke. The fire grows, feasting on the dry kindling and tinder wound through dry wood. It won’t take long. I hear…
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Awaiting the Doctor: An .@ImageCurve #haibun
Conversations carry on outside the grain-laminate door. Papers rustle. A phone rings with a staccato four-beat tone in the key of “E”. Lights hum. I sit in the last examination room on the left. A middle-aged Filipina in sky-blue scrubs measures my blood pressure. Her eyes widen. “Let me take it on your…
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An Awaited Turn in the Weather: A #TBT #Haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
Ever experience a turn in the weather?
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Memorial Stone: A .@ImageCurve #haibun
Mom and I see the headstone. Salmon, just as we chose. Smooth on top and along the sides, it emerges from a rough base of the same hue. Scattered grass grows on the flattened earth six feet in front of it. We remove the in-ground matching vases. Struggle to insert the simple bouquets we bought…
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My Daily #Haiku (11/10/18)
1/10/18: Chiaroscuro/light and dark falling foliage “Chiaroscuro/light and dark” remains unfinished #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #dversepoets
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Unrealized Paradise
Photo by Tarun Singh on Unsplash 81 “Let there be a little country without many people…” –Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, rendition by Ursula K. Le Guin Oh, if only there were a land where people truly loved their neighbor as themselves. Yes, a land where people embodied the golden rule. What need would…
