Moon Shot

Via Dave Kingsbury's Moon Shot tanka challenge Dave Kingsbury at A Nomad in Cyberspace posted a beautiful, evocative tanka today and challenged followers to add their own "in the hope that . . . the whole thing turns out to be somehow greater than the sum of its parts." Here's Dave's kickstarter tanka: Eyes down …

Truths: A Sestina

From time to time, I check my old journals, notebooks, filing cabinets, or Word files to see what I wrote when I was much younger.  I do so not just to find something to post here but to see what I had to say back then and how what I thought and wrote as a …

Ubi Sunt

Hello beloved friends and fellow Bloggers, Please forgive my recent neglect.  I've had a very busy week and must return shortly to court.  I've missed keeping up with your lovely posts but resolve to be back at it soon. While I have time, I'm responding, in my own rebellious way, to a recent "3 Days, …

A Poem, A Challenge

Yesterday I posted my poem "The Immortals" and threatened to post its sequel today.  As I slept all unawares, Victoria, my friend in Sweden who blogs as raynotbradbury, among others, nominated me for her version of the "3 Days, 3 Quotes" Blogger challenge.  Vic's a real rebel, she is, so please check out her very …

Owed to Mundanity

Bring it on, Monday, hit me with your best shot!  I am ready for you: Y'all like my Monday face? I had hoped to astonish you today with a brilliant poem, a glittering monument to my stunning skill and my felicitous facility with words, but this is all I came up with.  I know you'll …

A Poem, Some Pics

Given the schizophrenic weather we've been experiencing in recent months, I thought this poem appropriate for the occasion, and seeing as how it's about the seasons, I reckoned I'd throw in a few pics from hikes I took in 2 different seasons.  Enjoy, and please do let me know what you think. Changing Seasons Snowflakes …

A Proclamation

Hello lovely friends and fellow Bloggers, and good day to you all!  I, Denny, a tiny fish in a really freakin' big pond, happy and fortunate prince of my own minuscule domain, do hereby declare and bestow upon you all the freedom to have an awesome day of peace, joy, and relative ease and heap …

Alas, This Current Moment

via Daily Prompt: Foreign A wee bit of melancholy, defeatist wordplay for y'all today, born of my frustration over America's current, seemingly interminable political moment spurred on by a lying, mad bully beholden to despotic autocrats.  Quick, someblogger say something to cheer me up. Foreign influence campaigns leave me praying for rain to wash corrupt …

An Attempt

via Daily Prompt: Assay Word count = 371 / Reading time = 1 minute, 30 seconds Pardon the archaism as I assay to impress all you discerning Bloggers out there. It occurs to me that many of us here in the blogosphere are prospectors, our posts the ore we assay, sifting countless samples daily to …

Explaining the road rash on my forearm while working the register at Barnes & Noble

via Daily Prompt: Permit Word Count = 587 / Reading time = 2 minutes, 40 seconds I wrote this long poem in the summer of 2007, when my daughter was 18 months old and the circumstances of my life briefly allowed me to ride my bicycle, in conjunction with the city bus, back and forth …