only fools rush in

30 poems in 30 days is the challenge over at Real Toads today. To begin this month-long celebration of daily poems, let’s begin by drawing the proper Tarot card. Various decks portray the Ace of Wands as a hand coming out of a cloud, the rod which Moses used to strike the water of life, …

Hiraeth

An eloquent write from Brendan at Real Toads provides us with a prompt entitled Home. Please red his soulful introduction below before moving on to my poem. As one who moved around a lot in his earlier decades, the eventual finding, making and sustaining a place I call home has resulted in the most productive …

to capture a journey

img courtesy Our dVerse prompt today comes from Bodhirose. The Choka or Long Poem is believed to be the most intricate of Japanese poetry and was used to tell a story; many were epic with over 100 lines.  This form was popular between the 1st and 13th centuries, the earliest example was discovered in the …