Tag: dVerse
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A Gentling Art
The imagination runs wild! Cascades of caramel candy-corn torrent toward the corral. The whisperer remains seated, back straight, eyes unfocused. Imagination ninnies. Dragons scorch the house. Aliens land. Mushroom clouds burst! The whisperer remains still. Sighing, a chastened Imagination settles. returning ashore sea breeze Lillian invites us to express our imagination over at dVerse Poets’…
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Um Tango Doentio
Lady Pestilence knows how to party. She carassed my arms, and I felt aches radiate from my wrists, elbows and shoulders. I felt sure a change in weather would come, but that’s not what she had in mind. She grasped my hand, raised it over my head. Ever the obedient subject, I twirled for her.…
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (2/1/24): “Withering Cold” by Melissa Lemay
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#Haiku Happenings #7: “Between Breaths” by Michelle Beauchamp
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Just an Ordinary Walk
Mira’s legacy is ready. Jack’s Auto is only a 15 minute walk up Palmer Avenue. It’s cold, but not freezing. I put on my black suade, new wool hat, and gloves. Step after step up the sidewalk, the cold finding gaps through which to seep. Thic h Nhat Hanh’s “The Miracle of Mindfulness” plays through…
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#Haiku Happenings #6: “Haibun in memory of an artist mother” by Jane Dougherty
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#Haiku Happenings #2: “Haibun Monday 1-29-24: Breath” by yours truly over at dVerse Poets Pub
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Wild Zazen
Tonight’s sit was another dragon ride. A maelstrom of thoughts whirled throughout the mind. I returned again and again to the breath, rooting the awareness down in the hara. But even through such cognitive dervish-whirling, a pinch of clarity arose. through the clouds… moon De Jackson hosts dverse poets’ Quadrille #193: Poems in a Pinch.…
Frank J. Tassone 