Get Out TAoN No. 192: Some place-based writing prompts from Write Out. Plus a new Icebreaker, and more.

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She keeps
#Selcouth sundries
Shelved in sight.
Sinew & skull
In shells & nests,
Jaws & feathers
Relishing rest.
Rescued reminders of
Ferality & fragility,
They appear at her feet
Begging for shelter
To add to her keep.
Only a woman
Could hold such mystery.

#vss365
For my mom, reposted w/her "keep"

HEADBANGER HAIKU #3

Hell's bronze bell descends
Cast in rock's high voltage hearth.
We all air guitar.

#dailyhaikuprompt
#ACDC
#hearth
#Boston

HEADBANGER HAIKU #2

One clean cut fella
Hawk's eye view, salutes Angus.
Mullet long since gone

#dailyhaikuprompt
#hawk
#ACDC
#Boston

Marginalia, oh the romance! Excellent love language.

Thorough
A man burrowed
In the sand
Down by the sea

Diligent,
He built sand castles
Far as one
Could see

And when I asked
What drove him
He whispered, “WAIT”
To me

Then we watched
Tide claim his works…
In full,
Eventually

I guess in life
Not things, but work
Can write
Our #elegy
#vss365

The music program at the Refugee Art Education Center I sponsor in Uganda (serving 80+ refugee kids, mostly from Congo) has a half dozen guitars now, all made locally by young skilled luthiers. Hit me up if you'd like to sponsor a guitar. $25 each.

#refugees #guitars #musiceducation

HEADBANGER HAIKU

Blinking red-horned fans
Carpet the floor like ants,
Thunderstruck as one.

#dailyhaikuprompt #ants
#ACDC #Boston

I rough-chafe,
Peeling bark.
Thin-crinkle,
Brittle leaf.
Heart-beat,
Sparrow home.

Tingly soles,
Mycorrhizal connectivity
Or last star blink?

Karmic (r)evolution
From cloudy dream,
I cannot distinguish.

Am I tree
Or is it me?
No answer.

Dismissed,
I extinguish.

#vss365 #karma

Gorgeous! Thankful for Vss365, otherwise we would all be islands to ourselves.

In living color...

#comicbook
#comic
#watercolor
#suckysketchbook

"What's more punk than an existential crisis? Everything." (Working title for my self-indulgent comic).

No 1: "I carry this bag of steaming crap around full of rotted future dreams. My collection of unlived lives. Someone else's fulfilled dream delights and disgusts."

#comics
#existentialcrisis

On the Hop Brook Trail
At Garden In The Woods
I baby-step the descent.

An American Lady
With caramel-amber wings,
Pulses atop
Viridescent vegetation.

She is #Nirvana embodied,
Exhumed and triumphant.

Kin to but separate from
Brittle toast-hued leaves,
She lifts above
Yesteryear's hope.

#vss365

Dawn breaks, I awake
Brief mono no aware
Firmly plants me here

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"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese concept that translates to "the pathos of things" or "sensitivity of things."

I felt it deeply in Kentucky.

#dailyhaikuprompt
#sunrise
#kentucky
#mononoaware
#brief

Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.

A million skies
deftly painted
in cerulean blue
a colour artists
love to use
lifting our spirits
leading us through
dark times and troubles
a wild blue yonder
serene and calming
brought to the world
by Swiss chemist
and used by
Monet and Manet
this wondrous hue

#inkmine
#blue

These posts are gorgeous! Happily following your travels.

Nibbled here and there
Withered trillium -
Pale ephemera

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
#dailyhaikuprompt
#trillium
#kentucky
#flowers

My first ever trillium sighting!

Our ears strain in vain
On slivered moon evening
For coyote howls

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#dailyhaikuprompt
#evening
#kentucky

Darkened pond harbors
Only deafening peepers
Singing their love songs

Shy mayapple blossoms
Under leaf and sandstone arch -
A hiker's surprise.

+++++++++

#dailyhaikuprompt #naturalstonebridge
#haiku
#mayapple
#blossom
#kentucky

Red wing blackbird squawks
Attacks the window, seeing -
His own reflection

#haiku
#Redwingblackbird

They call him their "rooster"

Lingering late breeze
Shakes Eastern black walnut leaves
Moments fly away

#dailyhaikuprompt
#lingering
#kentucky

In Kentucky creeks,
Ancient sea lilly fossils
Await the gleaners

#dailyhaikuprompt
#crinoids
#kentucky
#fossils
#coral
#gleaners

Free to pee
You and me.

#vss365 #greatpyrenees #free #kentucky #farmdogs

On my sister's farm in KY

Bulrushes whisper
Fresh breeze tickles rocketcress
Dragonfly alights

#dailyhaikuprompt #kentucky #spring #breeze

Recharging my whole self with family in Kentucky under big skies with scrappy goats.

Poetry is everywhere.

Waiting for plane wings
To take us to Kentucky
Family awaits

#haiku
#travel
#vacation

(Kid in middle has sweatshirt hoodie cinched shut to catch zzz's)

RE-MEMBERING

I travel on the wings
Of my imagination
To that a priori place.

And return laden
With souvenirs
Both sweet and sour.

The ticket
To ride
Costs nothing.

The return
To wholeness
Worth everything.

#vss365 #cost #place #poem #poetry #watercolor #myart

It's inside us, not outside.

#7SyllableSentence