• From Bahia to Brooklyn: Caribbean Tales

    Originally posted on Repeating Islands: Here is a post by Peter Jordens. He brings us translations from the Dutch (from…

  • To Walk with a Higher Love NaPoWriMo 2023 #27

    Do you try to live a life Spiritually Sanctified? As I begin to grow, more and more, I have learned…

  • Oh, to be Your Agnes NaPoWriMo 2023 #26

    Oh, to be your Agnes, the queen, the mother, and the beam … By which you light fires and herb…

  • The Day I Sent You The Snakeskin NaPoWriMo 25

    Yeti purrs on the pillow next to my ears as dreams of you carry me away … We plumb the…

  • Browning Petals NaPoWriMo 24

    He told me I had not the soul of a poet … In my belief of unworthiness … In the…

  • This Choir Girl is in The Black Clouds Today NaPoWriMo 23

    I wish you would have chosen to stay … Your shorts still feel moist with their Gold Bond tinted olfactory…

  • Snow Yesterday NaPoWriMo 22

    Tadpoles reach for insects on the lake surface … The turtles have begun to dig themselves out of the mud…

  • Countenance of Three NaPoWriMo 21

    Mating with the forest is forbidden now … Do you wonder why women wear no flowers and men no fare…

  • Just a bit of rhyming fun NaPoWriMo 20

    I desperate dream my native star … Far beyond this galactic jar … Where musts be and kinder beings sway…

  • I Do Not Speak Emojis NaPoWriMo 19

    I know you love love me soul to soul … in the deep abiding way ships find their harbour despite…

  • Each night as I drift away … NaPoWriMo 18

    Slumbered steps ballerina thorne tumble … down rabbit holes so deeply grooved … in the blood stains of our bonds…

  • NaPoWriMo 17

    I have smoked the sacred tobacco meant for the Gods … for sacrifice, for my salvation through fire blood ……

  • Miracles NaPoWriMo 16

    The first seeds of this year’s garden open to and wind … Their micro cosmic prayers being offered to the…

  • Prophecy of Yellow Eyes NaPoWriMo 15

    Time is closing the window of his graceful glowers for me … It has been coming like the axe man…

  • … under many moons NaPoWriMo 14

    Tired and weary … fresh as snow … Just arrived … at far to go … Lonely all by ……

  • For it is … NaPoWriMo# 13

    The Wood ducks have returned to the big pond … they will raise their young on the banks then take…

  • Quiet Time NaPoWriMo# 12

    I think of you whole, lying in my bed alone, recalling your clammy interludes falling dewless on my now distended…

  • Wild Blackberries NaPoWriMo 11

    Torn hearts bind as one, violet seeds and velvet leaves become corporal fodder bleeding … Spring, as the wild blackberries…

  • Jewel Weed NaPoWriMo 10

    Stand we tall on our canes, our veins of not more than juices, and glands … How we lean to…

  • Sweet Chickory NaPoWriMo 9

    Sweet Chickory is nearly spent … It’s cornflower blue buds which open each morning … now blossoming in a soft…

  • Anger #NaPoWriMo 8

    Anger is an unnecessary need for soul feeding … heart squeezing daisy pushing upper door prize reprieve … How bitter…

  • NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 7: “Advanced Testing”

    the bloodstream began its yearly attack NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 7: “Advanced Testing”

  • we’re both sober now (napowrimo #6)

    we’re both sober now bobby and i, sitting at the  24 hour coffeehouse as a cold front strobes a burgeoning…

  • #NaPoWriMo 6

    Rain in all her glory of Spring has come early to bless a hopeful bounty of Summer’s slumbering prayers ……

  • #NaPoWriMo 7

    I dug the early raspberry and wild blackberry vines today … When once I stood with them collecting handful of…

  • Soul Flowers #NaPoWriMo 5

    Children can never resist flowers when they are young … the warmth of the sunshine which ever seems to follow…

  • Arrival #NaPoWriMo 4

    She rode her cosmic porpoise across the coming of the Taurus sky … fringe frilled mermaid desires filling her Robin’s…

  • The Hazelnut #NaPoWriMo3

    I do dream and dare to chance … of how the Hazelnut does glance … upon her kittens in their…

  • #NaPoWriMo2 Calendrical Refrain

    I wonder, more often than not,If you know your name is etched,Deeply still by magical strain,Upon my ancient forest growth…

  • #NaPoWriMo1 The Dust Wand

    And the house spiders spun with faery fronds … beneath the glaring glass … Chandeliers of mossy dust fast tied…

  • Mercy

    The flight of my father and mother to heaven has stilled my pen for what has seemed like eons of…

  • The rains have come, at long last … the only beings which may stop time for me since the tree…

  • I Want To Hear Your Voice

    “ I Want To Hear Your Voice “ The newborn ducklings struggle with soft slumber toward a peace where the…

  • Grief… the guilt — Aria-Bella Rises

    It has been 8 full moons since my little right hand pooch left his body. 8 months of me processing,…

  • Loss of a Beloved One

    Life is ever flowing ebb of rising/sweeping remission of emotional tides on which the human heart gallops. Opening the palm…

  • You Ought To Know

    Someone has been killing our cats, Demonic river congo rats, Seizure tremor clabber dinner, Milk poured from Death’s sovereign vat,…

  • Oleander Greed

    The catalpa pods dangle, hesitant paper laces in the hushed secrets of the Autumn winds … above and in sentry…

  • The precipice of summer lingers …

    The precipice of summer lingers lying quietly to the definitions we cling to … ritual eggs brighten rows freshly tilled by…

  • More ?

    Art work credit: Bloodletting by © CanisAlbus More … Tis all I find above sullen skies to sate the Spirit’s…

  • NaPoWriMo 2017 #7

    Glory’s voice, utterer, potter’s wheel clay culled of Crone Moon and Milky Way, Starchild, do not seek tenders and hope…

  • NaPoWriMo 2017 #6

    Bella Rosa Dreams (for all my Sisters who have survived to rise again) I used to come here to write…

  • NaPoWriMo 2017 #5

    Luna Love The foul leave feathers for me daily in trails to gather … from the barn to the Iron…

  • NaPoWriMo#4 2017

    Periwinkle’s Day In our wizard’s weary land of pine cone palaces and cypress needle streets … opened upon the morning’s…

  • NaPoWriMo 2017 #3

    The Mortal’s Prize Ceiling slats and shadow rats, the perceptible shards you left, in attic halls of dampened walls, piss…

  • NaPoWriMo 2017 #2

    Glory and Goodbyes The singing of glory songs is common in the tent camp of mutation … come follow the…

  • In the Land of Paper Cranes

    Honor reigns as the code of the rain in the Land of Paper Cranes … the unspoken behest of Grandmothers…

  • Tunnel… I’m not the only one …

    A lake lies dead … sickness fills its gills at the ice’s edge … hurried clutter and cramped fur decaying abide…

  • We were where we thought to be …

    Empty palms may read mere molecular blinds … those scents Spring dares not harness when the lilacs vine … beyond…

  • Bending to Your Fancy

    Winter’s willing bride again cradles the looking glass which Spring, as maiden, held seeming moments ago … dewy instrument of…

  • Happy Valentine’s Day, Darling …

    Morning breaks in the red ruddy flames of Dawn’s plumb and blush … sleepless bedlam born have I been with…

  • Yuletide greetings

    Originally posted on DIVINING/DESIGNING: Yuletide Greetings to you DIVINING/DESIGNING View original post

  • Luna Moth Fever

    Last poem to the present and pertinent heart … for with only a week to live …  I’ve luna moth…

  • Smoke Signals

    What is that? It started in your head, but God meant it for your mouth … How do you keep the ringlets…

  • Holy Vapors

    Mary in a Roman Catholic Church in Chicago I had forgotten what it feels like to breathe … taking in…

  • Death Defier

    Is it flight you seek in death to soar by wings of feather, scale, or silk … farewell mouth harping kisses…

  • The mosaic ginger …

    The mosaic ginger of the tree lined summer streets which hold in their leafy memories words you spoke walking home on…

  • Love of you …

    Love of you has turned me into mermaids, swimming in the spring pond today, the koi think I am the…

  • Dreams did not visit me last, I fitful tossed for rhyme for reason, liquidity of spirit lost in foretold fortunes,…

  • A Prophecy

      The peacock’s latch and key feather frames of the boundless Benoit Mandelbrot refraction within the eyes of our most…

  • … on the edge of time she has waited …

    … on the edge of time she has waited … toes sipping the star pools spinning galaxies with stories her…

  • Button clad agaric caution …

    Button clad agaric caution hosts the greenest compliments the mosses know to braille brush the aspen’s whispers … with surest…

  • The stars spoke saying,”We are the constant, the spark of dark flame within your illumination. You are the path we guide…

  • Saying Goodbye

    Saying Goodbye, well that’s simply not possible … we are a part of each other now … you have not…

  • Art Credit: Tomasz Alen Kopera Now is the briefest passage of the gloaming light … mustard flecked goblin suspensions of Spirit’s…

  • Gertrude

    My arrival at home that day had been too late. I could see it when my eyes met my Mothers.…

  • Dares, Dodges, and Ignorance

    She brought flowers with her for the first time they would meet. Lovely pink roses, she bought as the grocers…

  • Light my world …

    You are the source of my Sun~shine revolving around the window pane galaxy which leads long stemmed petal and portal…

  • Puns and Punctuation

    I used to come to the altar of offerings to bleed for you in single strands of my diluted blue…

  • Queens of the Tarot up your sleeves

    How can I write anything more than druthers with you gone … with your salt still here in my veins,…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #30

    Freedom Sweat wand hair triggers press the oil stain of guilt upon life’s innocent … in the scope’s glass the…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #29

    I Remember I remember the day you opened your eyes, I remember your first bottle and burp, I remember the smell…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #28

    We hunger so, There must be a way to quench these desires, We’ve dream the illusion into reality, Until rapture…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #27

    Believer in Signs Upon rising in the morning, the dreary window pellets of  Dawn’s still falling rain clinging to the…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #26

     the world did it’s level best … to drive a wedge between us … it was all in vain ……

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #25

    {off prompt}   Green leaf ginger renegades steal her sleepless daze … she dances to the Gypsy Wife alone until…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #24

    {off prompt} Love is All I Know Love is all I know in this dear and frail heart of mine…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #23

    The prompt today was to write a Sonnet. “Traditionally, sonnets are 14-line poems, with ten syllables per line, written in…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #22

    Mother Earth, we come to you in the only way a child knows … with water and spoon … imagination…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #20

    Welcome to My Mechanism There is a little story, about the spider and the fly, Come into my parlor, one…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #19

    The day was one of those spring firsts, You can’t bear to be inside and miss the sun, Everything is…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #18

    The prompt today was to use a phrase from an instructional or informative manual of some sort. I chose “Earl…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #17

    To be fair as Flora, she … rose, orchid, or lady’s slipper … branching arms embrace with delicate stem ……

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #16

    {off prompt} I loved the prompt today. I did not make it home in time to post to it. I will…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #15

    The prompt tonight was to write on the subject of two or the other. Between Your Curse and Mine The…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #14

    {off prompt} Open and Close of Day The sunrise is the hue of pink champagne this morning … the blessed…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #13

    The prompt tonight was to use a fortune cookie saying in some way in our poem. I keep all my…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #12

    {off prompt} You can’t tell by looking at her … though the signs are beginning to show … when she…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #11

    {off prompt} Rains bide their illusory pact with tidal chains … the moon commands to quench the parch pink softness…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #10

    The Pullet’s Song (off prompt) The heart rushes at times ahead of its rhythms … expanding beyond what oxygen can…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #9

    In lavender moments, I may think upon you … the calmness of my crystal countenance rattled and rang about a…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #8

    Let There Be Love   May the children in the morning rays, Remember love will always stay, In their hearts…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #7

    (off prompt today) Loosing Neo’s Compass Is loosing the belief in our own ability to transcend …  the darkness in which…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #6

    NaPoWriMo 2016 #6 Sentient beings are starving on Earth tonight, As the sun says, “Good night” to the moon, The…

  • NaPoWriMo 2016 #5

    Today’s prompt was to incorporate names of heirloom seeds into our poems. Very clever. NaPoWriMo2016 #5 All my thoughts of…

  • NaPoWriMo #4

    The Cruelest Month of All Mankind, in all his glory, found it fit to define time … to harness the blessed…

  • NaPoWriMo #3

    Dearest Mr. Cohen, I came to your music quite late in my life, Pardon me, but this couldn’t be helped,…

  • NaPoWriMo #2

    The prompt today was to write a family portrait. I am attempting to stay the course.  🙂 #2 The names…

  • NaPoWriMo #1

    Today’s challenge was to write a lune. A lune is an English-language haiku consisting of a 5-3-5 syllable or word…

  • National Poetry Writing Month begins today …

    Today we begin the month of poetic blossoming. Poets everywhere look forward to the challenge this month affords us. We…