posting poetic prose
23 Feb 2026 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: bread, food, gratitude, hunger, injustice
hollow, hungry people find food
scarce but reasons plentiful: drought,
pests, war, unemployment, injustice.
fat, well-fed folks find food
plentiful but gratitude scarce:
gluttons of greed, stingy to share.
aren’t we all famished for
the bread of heaven himself
to come fill us… abundantly?
Gathering at dVerse poets pub where Lisa hosts hungry quadrilles…
23 Feb 2026 2 Comments
in Uncategorized, senryu Tags: ashes, death, dust, mortality
ashes to ashes
accept own mortality
from dust back to dust
human life is fragile when
disease or disaster strikes
20 Feb 2026 Leave a comment
in senryu Tags: ashes, death, tree, sin, eden, iguana, comatose, torpor
comatose to sin
trapped in cold death-like torpor
reptilian claws
aggressive if awakened
fallen out of eden’s tree
18 Feb 2026 13 Comments
dawn’s existential
questions ask me:
what am i good at?
and what do i love?
i love my husband;
his hands, his habits
committed promise
to live life together
(companionship with
mutual understanding
that most differences
aren’t worth a fight)
i have need to write,
feel compelled to,
fulfilled by it…you
may say i’m good at
poetry is universal
language; to bask in
bare beauty of words
is to love like a nerd
prayer as life breath;
God is always near
whether or not i can
feel (or love) Him
Jesus seems easier to
love, harder to obey…
but “we love because
he first loved us” yes!
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Quote from 1 John 4:19. Written in response to journal prompt/pic by Dawn at:
https://enthusiasticallydawn.com/2026/02/15/all-the-love-journal-prompts-week-3
Also check out dVerse poets where Sanaa hosts “The Evolution of Love”.
08 Feb 2026 3 Comments
in free verse Tags: button, cloud, coin, cookie, eye, half-moon, night, stars
…shiny cat’s eye blinks through clouds, prowling night sky
…textured pearl peeks from buttonhole in velvet evening jacket
…half~eaten cookie left on God’s midnight marble countertop
…broken frisbee dropped by angels playing constellation disc golf
…abandoned baby bib lying on floor among milk-splattered stars
…bright coin slipping into slot of heavenly vending machine
…sleepy headlight on black coupe driving home past curfew
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Kudos to Hiva Sobhani for fabulous photo of moon!
06 Feb 2026 13 Comments
in cascade Tags: america, Ben Franklin, flag, honor, patriotism, republic
“We have a republic, if you can keep it!”
to quote Ben Franklin, a founding father;
patriotism was his badge of honor.
Immigrants come, none desire to leave;
she’s flawed, yet best free country to claim —
ours is a republic, if we can keep it!
Paid agitators stir up trouble to divide,
we must hang together (or die separately)
to quote Ben Franklin, our founding father
Let’s observe America’s 250th birthday,
celebrate together stars & stripes forever
since patriotism is a badge of honor!
The cascade is not a difficult form to understand. You will use each line from your first stanza in subsequent stanzas. For example, if your first stanza is three lines, your will have four stanzas. The first line of your first stanza becomes the last line of the second stanza. The second line of the first stanza becomes the last line of your second stanza, and so on. – Merril hosts MTB at dVerse
06 Feb 2026 3 Comments
in tanka Tags: confession, forgiveness, guilt, Jesus, mercy, repentance, sin
guilt weighs bitterly
self chokes on confession but
forgiveness tastes sweet
real repentance turns around
God delights to show mercy
Look around, even within, and recognize the brokenness of sin. Look up to Jesus and find a fresh start…again!
04 Feb 2026 19 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: dental floss, love, pearls, sheep, simile, smile, teeth
We’re smiling at dVerse where Dora hosts Poetics and serves similes…
(credit: AI image from adobe.com)
a smile is like a sweet simile
to what can it be compared?
much more than simply
an upside down frown or a
show-off row of perfect pearls
like Solomon’s ewes with twins,
Shakespeare’s half-murderous grin,
or Carroll’s elusive cat (doth scat)
my love’s desire is to coax yours,
your smile my wit’s reward as our
hearts entwine like dental floss
to what can poetry be compared?
aye, a simile is like your sweet smile!
02 Feb 2026 22 Comments
in haibun Tags: gopher, groundhog, news, prairie dog, weather
Sso, it’ss ground hog’ss day again, iss it? Ssay your s-ss with a whisstle and you can ssound like the gopher in Walt Dissney’ss “Winne-the-Pooh”. He’ss a favorite character for ssure and a good excusse to practisse your whisstling sskillss. Ssee what i mean?
Here’s the news from Pennsylvania reported by TODAY: “Around 7:30 a.m. local time, Phil’s handler retrieved him from his burrow, and the president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said that Phil did indeed see his shadow…which means six more weeks of winter are ahead.”
It’s probably safer to be a ground hog in the Keystone State than a prairie dog in South Dakota. Hunting season is year round with no limit to the number of black-tailed prairie dogs you may shoot. It’s a way to control the prolific population and protect grasslands from degradation.
watch prairie dog town
heads pop up, tails disappear
curious critters
27 Jan 2026 17 Comments
in quadrille Tags: life, ocean, poem, rhyme, rhythm, ship, shore, trip, waves
A quadrille (44 words) for dVerse poets where Punam invites us to take a trip!
life’s poem logs distance trip;
soulful body-travel thru time
like one-way passage by ship
on waves of rhythm ‘n rhyme.
when reeling lost, lone, afraid
in ocean breakers’ angry roar,
trust good Captain who stays on
watch, steering us safe to shore!
“We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!”
(Ephesians 2:10 from The Passion Translation)
20 Jan 2026 29 Comments
in free verse Tags: ballet, diamond, drifts, snow, sun, white
winter night’s velvet-soft silence
shaken…
startle-dark rumble of snow thunder births
frosty six-pointed stars in original designs
to flutter-twirl down…
graceful ballet dancers
dressed in dazzle-white tutus,
falling into drifts…
their collective diamond-glitter fluff reflects
as sun’s morning rays break into joyful applause!
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Kim invites dVerse poets to write about our experience of snow…or the way i like to experience it 🙂
19 Jan 2026 1 Comment
in haiku Tags: eagle, field, talons, wings
wing feathers beat air
sharp eyes, beak, talons focus
eagle swoops on field
Surprised by bald eagle swooping down from sky to field in our backyard…did not get a photo through window!
a poem in my pocket 
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