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22 Sept: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It Twilight has a voice of indifference. Not at all like dawn which is full bodied air, chirping and touching everything, and waving a red flag as if reclaiming its roots. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the…
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21 Sept: Two Boxers
“Pardonnez-moi,” she says. She has two leashes in her hand. One green and one red. “I must tie them up,” she says, “the fool dogs.” She pronounces fool as foil, but nevertheless I understand her frustration. The dogs are eating the chickens. Written for Denise’s Six Sentence Story including the word: Foil”. Some artwork is…
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21 Sept: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week The I In It (a haibun) How did these things receive such absolute names. Adam. Eve. Eden. My mother was always naming things. She would say “Wear the bee dress,” I was stung by a wasp whilst wear it. She had secret names for things, too. Whipper-snapper was…
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20 Sept: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: The boys wading the creek who catch North American signal crayfish so they don’t kill the native White-Clawed Crayfish. Chalk streams flowing again. Birds that are quicker than cats. Tomatoes still ripening in the greenhouse Blackberries, big, fat, and full of juice for pie. Ernest Hemingway Café and Bar in Reims…
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19 Sept: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my holiday snaps and found a few to share. ©Misky 2023 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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19 Sept: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
A Journal of Thoughts from Last Week (Loire Valley) The I In It Look at the colours, he says. And summer has leathered the landscape, sugar beets pulled from the soil, and we drive through kilometres of wind turbines turning slow and lazy. The colours could fuel a fire. Sing choirs of sparrows in the…
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18 Sept: dVerse Quadrille #208
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed (info at Wikipedia) A vampire’s shrinewith tall candles liteach trembling shadow’s flameis pierced.She stands in her temple,weaving vowsone long songfor a full moon’s glare strangling the tranquil air.…Quiet …Be still.Here where blood is life;here her life’s prolonged. Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #208 “vampire”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is…
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17 Sept: A Six – An Equal Division of Light and Dark
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 28, An Equal Division of Light and Dark last week‘s post An Equal Division of Light and Dark Pierre comes home next week … but to what, to our intricate web, spun soft, occasionally smooth, heavy as Dido’s sword. It’s just…
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14 Sept: A Dream on Lake Bafa
A Dream on Lake Bafa (a haibun) And it was just a dream (I reminded myself) that flickered like a movie reel, a lady posed with a yellow pet snake, 3 odd sized clowns, a few policemen with oars in hand who stood upright in a row boat, and there was a lisping tenor singing…
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12 Sept: 100 Words and a Crow
100 Words and a Crow “She likes a clean house,” says the woman with blue tint hair, “so she hires a woman. Her husband hires one, too,” and a nervous giggle runs itself through the queue. We’re at the post office, collecting pensions, buying stamps, etc. And I say, “It was my grandmother’s birthday yesterday,…
