Tag: haibun

  • Everflowing

    Everflowing

    A #Haibun for my #HaibunMonday prompt over at #dVersePoetsPub

  • A Bout with a Turmultuous Anxiety

    A Bout with a Turmultuous Anxiety

    Rising, confronted with the realization of another day… snarling carnivore clamping down the terror breaking out Seated, facing the light, a voice like my own saying, “Feel…” unknotting this inside tsunami breathing Calming, the last hurricaned heartbeat settling… enemy mine the call to again ride the Dragon Melissa Lemay calls on us to write pivotal…

  • Samhainic Isolation

    Samhainic Isolation

    The ravens come. An oak tree filled with autumnal-colored, yet shriveling, leaves stands on a stretch of fading grass. The birds perch on its outstretched limbs and on the ground before it. The Morrigan follows her flock. Pale, black haired, a carnivorous smile across her gaunt, cadaverous visage, she spreads her right arm to her…

  • Where Did They Go?

    Where Did They Go?

    Where did the years go? Where is the young teacher struggling to touch the jaded lives of teens long cynical? & where is the student who says “I like the way you teach…” faded grass the first cool wind of August Where did the years go? Where is our toddler scampering through the house whose…

  • Silvering

    Silvering

    Teen Wolf, the series pilot. A lone lycanthrope flees a party of human hunters. Their grim-faced leader stares ahead, his cold blue eyes revealing not a wisp of weakness. & why not? He comes from a long line of Argents—that bane of werewolves everywhere. that merciless skybound silver disk Sturgeon moon Camden Locke Market, London,…

  • “See, What had happened was…”

    “See, What had happened was…”

    So… you have have noticed that I have not been around lately. Well, I could tell you about our merry adventure. How the “Powers that be” in the place we used to live violated our lease. & that we responded by searching high and low for a new place. I could tell you about trading…

  • O, Six-String!

    O, Six-String!

    The cadence of the strummed chords of an acoustic. The arpeggios plucked on the same strings their unending melodies morning bird songs The vibrant melodies exploding off the rabid finger-tabs on an eletric’s frets. The chest-pounding distortions of staccato chords licked on the same. piercing an afternoon cicadas Whatever sound, in whatever form, who dares…

  • Fishy Quandries

    Fishy Quandries

    Would I say yes? If a Galilean rabbi boarded my boat, & had me put out to preach? Then told me drop my nets? & nearly swamp my boat with netted fish after a fruitless night? Well, would I? calling us “Fishers of men…” dropped nets It’s Quadrille #228 over at dVerse, and Mish prompts…