amazin’ daisies
greet world with warm cheerfulness
cool blue moods subdued
paint me happy
17 Mar 2026 1 Comment
in haiku Tags: cheer, cool, daisies, happy, mood, warm
pyrotechnics
02 Mar 2026 20 Comments
in haibun Tags: star, fire, planets, gravity, orbit, comet
Frank Tassone hosts haibuns at dVerse Poets Pub and pays tribute to Tracy K. Smith’s “Life on Mars” poetry collection.
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You left me here, frozen in time on a barren planet. It’s colder in your absence, yet life keeps spinning with no fixed lunar calendar. Grief’s comet cycles round as it crosses into my orbit in ever lengthening, less frequent ellipses. I ponder memorable views as it burns across thin atmosphere.
Now I play the sun in others’ galaxy; these bright planets circle me with their many moons. I smile warmly at them as they pass, holding them in my gravity. I wonder if they realize I’m a slowly dying star; building up sufficient heat to explode brilliantly when the time comes.
universe on fire
venus and mars cross orbits
fresh new stars are birthed
tracks left in snow
27 Feb 2026 6 Comments
in ekphrastic Tags: dogs, family, home, hope, imagination, snow, winter
if one perceives seasonal reality
if quiet arts calm mind and heart
if home means safe, warm shelter
and human connection a treasure
then dress for frosty winter weather
then admire neighborhood palette
then follow soft street lights home
and unleash wet dogs among family
restore acceptance of nuanced story
restore healthy, hopeful imagination
restore refuge from shadows of chaos
and do not neglect brother or friend.
Lillian hosts open link night with dVerse Poets…
son of manna
23 Feb 2026 9 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: bread, food, gratitude, hunger, injustice
hollow, hungry people find food
scarce but reasons plentiful: drought,
pests, war, unemployment, injustice.
satisfied, 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… more abundantly?
Gathering at dVerse poets pub where Lisa hosts hungry quadrilles…
temporal
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
iguana culture
20 Feb 2026 Leave a comment
in senryu Tags: ashes, comatose, death, eden, iguana, sin, torpor, tree
comatose to sin
Credit: Freepik, kuritafsheen77
trapped in cold death-like torpor
reptilian claws
aggressive if awakened
fallen out of eden’s tree
love does good
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”.
half~moon swoon
08 Feb 2026 3 Comments
in free verse Tags: eye, night, stars, cloud, cookie, coin, half-moon, button
i look up as half~moon looks down like…
…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!
wish her many more
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
fresh start
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!
like smiley-faced emojis
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!
a poem in my pocket 
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