Tag: Poetry
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Day 9 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Where It’s where the dandelionloses its crown,where raincomes sheeting down, where the river’s reachmeets the waiting…
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Day 9 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. I.The Architecture of Where Where silence hums its deep, unbroken tune;where the past softensunder the patient moon. Where steam…
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The Old Woman With No Cat
The Old Woman Explains Thanksgiving (and other Impossibilities) The cat’s draped across the kitchen table.One paw outstretchedtoward November’s windowwhere a plump pheasant strutsthrough the frost. “Why,” the cat begins, in a tone suggesting a legal challenge,“do Brits not have a feast?And why is that bird so rude,…and so large?It’s taunting me.” The Old Woman sighs,wiping…
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Day 8 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of More The scar will not vanish,but love knowsthe physics of the heart. Let the wound closeon…
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Day 07 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of a Dream days that wither into night,dreams that ache to wake — a patchwork heartstitching love…
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Day 6 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of a Principle Bare feet steady as stones in sand;waves fold like forgotten prayers. Here, time’s no…
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Day 05 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. Architecture of a Black Feather Crow on a leaf-bare branch —rain-soaked,plumage bruised to blue sheen. Polished obsidian,gossamer slickof night’s…
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Day 5 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. Architecture of a Departure Farewell, summer’s geese,their airborne hymn and ragged prayersof a hundred wings. They glide on wind’s…
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Day 04.1 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause. The Architecture of Memory From the porch, a blue belt of seathe horizon stitched to my gaze.I was joy,…
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Day 04 NovPAD Challenge
The Architecture of a Moment The Architecture of Entanglement Either/Or, Both/And He settles into pillows and blankets, “What are you writing; read it to me,” he says. Softly, quietly, a step above breath, Of temporal entanglement, I begin. He laughs. And vomits again. — a particle shivers.Its spin decidedby an action yet to occur. The…
It's Still Life 