Month: February 2023

Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2023 #Potluck – The Grass is not Always Greener – #Tech Woes – From #Rogers to #BellCanada and Back by D.G. Kaye

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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2023 #Potluck – The Grass is not Always Greener – #Tech Woes – From #Rogers to #BellCanada and Back by D.G. Kaye Posted on February 17, 2023 Welcome to the new series of Posts from Your Archives 2023 where I will be sharing posts from the last six months of 2022 […]

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Last year’s thing

This is for the dverse prompt. 140 words of prose including the line from Charlotte Mew: “This year’s a different thing, –I’ll not think of you.” Last year’s thing I always wanted happiness, like everyone else, but how do you measure it? I thought it was something I could hold in my hand, take out […]

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Toddaid

Last week’s form chosen by Paul Brookes was the Toddaid, another Welsh form. I found a Welsh site (in English translation) for the instructions. This is what I understood. Structure is couplets, L1 10 syllables, L2 9 syllables. Main rhyme, which can be assonance or consonance, is mid L1 end L2, and there’s an echo […]

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Dancing

Inspired by the immense Paolo Conte and the wall-painters of Pompei. Dancing Da-di da-da didancingif you look you see the bee the sea you and medancingwith a whirl a swirl a boy and girldancingfingers meet tapping feet drum a beatdancingcolours stream purple cream in a dreamdancing.in a world of lies be the dazzle-eyes of damselfliesdancingda-di […]

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Cloud colours

Cloud colours The course of the clouds describesthe arced belt of foamracing up the strandover and over againa bow of bellsringing the changes ~east to west day to night~ white floods the blueair sun-yellowedpigments refined from lightbright and high as the starsdeep as the burnt earth of Lascauxand the dark of distant time. Cloud colours […]

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