What kind of garden are you?
Me I envy the beauty of a formal garden. I imagine appearing neatly clipped, colors coordinated. What a wonderful thing it would be to think in tidy paths that take me past each important element. All my blooms would open at the proper time, in proper order, and in their proper place. All would arrange themselves around an exquisite centerpiece of good sense and logic. I’m more like a tangled wood, honeysuckle vines and thorned blackberries marking my borders, tiny violets hiding in my shadows. I’m a web of branches and green growth, reaching for sun and sky by day, moon and stars by night. My roots burrow into a…
- Einstein Rap, Einstein's Birthday, March 14th, Nara Malone, Nerds, Pi Day, Pie, Three Word Wednesday
Happy Pi Day!!!
Elegant is a word only the nerdiest would apply to pi. Most people find it baffling. But I think we can all agree that a Pi Day celebration is something even the most diligent defamers of Pi, wouldn’t neglect. And if we can’t celebrate Pi day out of a pure love for Pi, let’s not forget it’s also the birthday of the greatest nerd of all time. Happy birthday, Al. As proof that even nerds are cool on Pi Day, check out this Einstein Rap. So how are you celebrating Pi Day? This was posted as a contribution to Three Word Wednesday Drop by to see what others wrote…
- depression, Friday Flash 55, mourning, Nara Malone, Poetry, spring, trioloets, widow's weeds, winter
Winter’s Weeds
With the cycling seasonpines bow under winter’s last snow,white-haired crones, mourners lined up at the junction. With the cycling seasonice-studded river dressed in black silk,flanked by sequined shores, spectral mist infusion. With the cycling seasongray-scale landscape inked on white canvasawaits exchange–black crepe for spring pastel profusion. I’m a greenling when it comes to the fine craft of poetry forms, but this is my crack at writing a kinda, sorta triolet for dVerse Poets and a Friday Flash 55 in one post. The last five words (not necessarily the last five words in the poem) were the hardest. Image credit:forest by night by gyst on Flickr; Daffodil, Beckenham by dan taylor…