soil and soul

Tis poetics night at dVerse and Bjorn offers us this prompt. Taste the soil or bite the dust, bring me poetry from what you sense in soil. Be gravedigger or gardener, be soil of your origin and dig it deep. When you have written your poem, post it to your blog and link it to …

open

Kerry is prompting us to Paint a Picture today over at Real Toads. I have chosen the picture that illustrates this post called Tree Girl with Woodpeckers by Japanese print maker, Kaoro Kawano (1916 - 1965). (Fair Use) Kerry goes on to add, With the medium of wood block, Kawano produced images quite startling in their simplicity. …

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #14 storm

Our prompt today from Chèvrefeuille is the word Storm and the invitation to write in one of the 5 Tanka styles illustrated so far this month through the study of Teika's writing techniques. So storm it is then and perhaps you can guess the style I have chosen? ***   ***   *** silently i sit no …