Month: Oct 2017
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Friday’s Gnomes Forms: “Sijo”
Poetic Form: Sijo: Three lines. Each line varies between 14 and 16 syllables, with the middle line the longest. The first line states a theme, the second line counters it, and the third line resolves the poem. for: Gnomes Notes: Taarab (or tarab) def https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarab
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Oh Joy for Miz Quickly
Eighty Words About Dust It’s like this — I like dust. Not dusting. I like its single-mindedness. Its persistence. I like the science behind an avalanche of dead skin. A flurry of sloughed debris. It’s desert dry. Dead. Devious. Really. I like to chase it about, snap it, flick it with a cloth. It hides…
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Twiglet #44 “a bare room”
Dear Departed It looks like the outside in here with shadows feasting on dust, on webs and invisible draughts, and dried leaves dancing the floor. A creaking space. Empty. No echoes of your goodbye goodbye goodbye. Twiglet #44 “a bare room”
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In the Dumpster for Miz Quickly
Conflicted these are autumn’s dying days, when my presence is a stain, a conflict of colour with the sun, when I am little more than my shadow (it folds and fits neatly beneath my feet), and there it remains, constrained, until I move. or die. for the marvellous Miz Quickly’s Dumpster Dive Based…
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de-Grammer for dVerse
Another Cloud I knew a girl, she grew she grew, a hued music lived inside her, finger-dancing across her knees. Another day, acid-etched, another soft-edge cloud spilled, another bird’s scribbling word. And her cat’s the colour of sunset. It keeps itself just beyond her dancing-fingers reach. for dVerse and Gnomes
It's Still Life 