Monthly Archives: June 2016

Getting Blank

Posted on June 29, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Reset your face. Erase all traces of the you that’s been you for way too long. Forget your song: the words, the refrain, that last strain that kept you sane through the tumbled storm. Wish yourself strange, a stranger … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged moon stones, Poetic Asides, songs | 2 Comments

The Thrill of Quadrille

Posted on June 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… We come for the dance, the chance to lull words into bubbled glee, grin them happily into melted days. Suppose the shimmer of a twisted phrase, the way it skips, all bright green breeze. And when the word basket … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dVerse, Q44, Quadrille, word baskets | 9 Comments

Any Other Name

Posted on June 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Rise up and call yourself strange, unchained from sky and sea and song. Moniker your soul with thorny crown, held down by silence. Stem the sweet, sweet smell of somethingness; give up up up and fill your cup, revel … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged any other name, crowns, dVerse, I rise, Q44, Quadrille, rose, Shakespeare, somethingness | 30 Comments

between breeze and bloom

Posted on June 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

play magnetic poetry here.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Lake ache, magnetic poetry, moon stones, murmur, poetical magnetism, summer poems, wander songs | 4 Comments

Bipolar Sky

Posted on June 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Make up your mind, woman. Indigo silk dress, or syringed star scars. You get to decide both color (blue rasp -berry cotton candy, ink stain, ebony charcoal curmudgeon smudge) and texture (wisp, willow tree, wallow). You wave your birdless … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blue, dawn, Garden with Toads, moon, sky songs, stars | 9 Comments

Most Mad and Moonly

Posted on June 23, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. She’s craving crescent, effervescent sliver, silverfish shivered into indigo sky. She’s carving her full self out of ivory, dipping low into crimson sea and wondering how she came to be quite so gibbous. She’s amphibious, breathing strange in her … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged constellations, cravings, moon poems, moon songs, moon stones, most mad and moonly, Poetic Asides, stars | 3 Comments

Summer Salt

Posted on June 21, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Had I told the sea of my longing, my wanting, the quiet haunting of my heart for wave and salt, it might have prepared itself for these feet. It might have treated my tumbled edges less like seaglass … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged crazy for the moon, dVerse, dVerse poems, moon, sea glass, sea salt, summer, summer poems | 23 Comments

Kisame

Posted on June 20, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… We’re driving into a Monet painting. Crimson, gold, apricot, amber swirled all around us in one dizzying blur. We are Leaf Peepers, a name that still cracks us up on day 3, transported into this east coast masterpiece from … Continue reading →