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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Welcome Summer
Hanging on my studio walls are three collages dear to my heart. The triptych represents the three aspects of the Great Goddess, representing the three traditional phases of womanhood – maiden, mother, crone. It’s a fine thing for an artist to … Continue reading
Posted in Archetype, Art, Consciousness, dVerse, goddess, Herstory, Poetry, Psychology, Symbol, Women
Tagged crone, d'Verse Poets Pub, Great Goddess, Magdalene A.D., Maiden, Mary Grace Guevara, Mother, Rumi, Venus of Hohle Fels
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Prompted by Paint
I must have been about nine the first time I visited New York City. We lived in Washington DC and Nana, my world -travelling grandmother, just back from Egypt, was laying over in New York on her way home. My … Continue reading
Posted in haibun, Memoir, Poetry, Writing
Tagged ancestors, Auntie Mame, Broadway Boogie-woogie, d'Verse Poets Pub, Empire State Building, Kim M. Russell, New York City, Piet Mondrian
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Haiku-ish
After reading two supplementary, interesting, but densely elegant, essays on the difference between mora or on and syllables, I decided to eschew counting, take Frank J. Tassone‘s advice and just write. After all, dropping into the d’Verse Poets Pub is … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse, Haiku, Poetry
Tagged d'Verse Poets Pub, flamingos, Frank J. Tassone, haiku, Nature
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Portals
Check out dVerse Poet Pub’s post for May 19th and read Anmol’s post on portals, our prompt for the day. He begins with a quote from Arundhati Roy that touched me profoundly. He also includes some very interesting poems, providing … Continue reading
Posted in Archetype, Art, dVerse, Fairy Tales, Poetry
Tagged Anmol, d'Verse Poets Pub, Michelle Anglin, portaks, Time's Arrow, Two Twiech a Tale
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Quadrilles
The quadrille is a tiny poem of exactly forty-four words not counting the title. Today’s challenge from the d’Verse Poets Pub is hosted by De Jackson aka. whimsygizmo who wants us to incorporate the word ‘fix’ as in “Oh we’re … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse, Poetry, quadrille
Tagged d'Verse Poets Pub, De Jackson, fix, poetry, quadrille, relationship
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Merged Vision
Mish is hosting OpenLinkNight at the d”Verse poet’s Pub, which gives me the opportunity to post a poem I wrote a couple of years ago for Merging Visions a combined visual art and poetry exhibition. The idea is to promote … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse, Poetry
Tagged d'Verse Poets Pub, Denton Poets Assembly, Ingrid Scobie, Japan, Mish, Tokyo, Visual Arts Society of Texas
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The Thirteenth Fairy
My heads been wrapped up in fairy tales the last few weeks while I explored their underlying implications for our lives with Stephanie Anderson Ladd and an amazing group of wise women. If this seems like escapism, trust me its … Continue reading
Joyous Beltane
Beltane Wild nights and bawdy days May moon rides the heaving waves whales leap to arch and moan churn the sea to creamy foam inland forests sway and writhe tangled limbs all long and lithe part around a dancing … Continue reading