still born

  “People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover …

How to make magic: part 1

sizzle your stick fireside until its tip glows red take in your hands and aim it heavenward where you may burn a hole in the clouded night sky chant a mysterious twin-soul-song in a tongue unknown and watch rapt as angels eyes wink back   Victoria hosts Quadrille night over at dVerse asking us to …

magic turns

Tonight I am hosting Poetics at dVerse and calling for a little Magic. Here is one I made earlier and forgot about but had scheduled and now it just posted itself, as if by Magic 😉   .................and just in case you can't stand on your head and twist or turn your pc/mac 360 degrees …

strange fruits

"Well it's a marvelous night for a moon-dance"~ Van Morrison It's time for a morsel of Magic over at dVerse tonight with yours truly hosting. Come visit and conjure up some enchantment of your own.   maybe we'll close eyes and wish for another day in paradise winking starlight- let that gorgeousness come rain upon …

a lit oration

Tonight is Poetics night at dVerse and I will be hosting with the theme of Magic. Why not pop along and sprinkle a little faerie dust of your own into our poetry community. Birth brings bright brilliant bedazzlement bouncing boldly like legs lilting laconic laments, lounge-laced in iridescent iris infused infiltrations illuminating serendipitous sanctimony, seemingly …

Ancient Land

img sourced from this collection Haibun Monday at dVerse tonight and here is our topic from Toni Spencer. I was reading the Night Before Christmas and was struck by the last line of the story poem:  And to all a goodnight!  I liked that ending as much as I liked Scrooge’s conversion in his story, …