BTT #79: A brief time

A Brief Time . A leaf rests silent on the ground Beside a withered rose. With careful flight The sunset lights Beside a withered rose. . I don't know where my whisper goes Into the reaching night. A breath, a hold, A heartbeat folds Into the reaching night. . Your little hands held on so …

BTT 31.2 A Death in the Wild

This is a rerun from 2018 when Jilly at dVerse Poets pub prompted us to take a walk in the wild.  This is actually not quite just a rerun, but a slight revision of the original poem. Here is the link to the original prompt.  https://dversepoets.com/2018/05/01/lets-get-wild/ . A Death in the Wild                 · A …

BTT 49.2: BTT #49: Soap Dispenser – Montgomery – Alabama – 2018

“We’re here because we just want to wash our hands.”  Photo of a public parks soap dispenser showing a vandalized Great Seal of the City of Montgomery, Alabama in 2018.  Notice that "Civil Rights" has been scratched out and "Cradle of the Confederacy" remains intact. Photo by Lona Gynt. Felt Like time for a re-run, this felt …

BTT #69: A Question on Falling

Somewhere near soccer fields in Greensboro, NC A Question on Falling Did I let Go of grasping Leafy branches or Just slip? . I ask you When I gently Softly landed safe And free, . Could you then Forgive me this Weightless grace granting Me breath? . Leaves dance in Summer breeze, then Slowly flutter …

BTT #64: Stream

  Stream · What are you That would make me stop And visit On my walk When it is so heavy hot That even the bees Seem languid And the trees spreading Some little Bit of green And cooling shade are closer Than the time it takes For just half Of ‘Layla’ to play. The …

BTT #52: Entanglement

Entanglement   We gaze out empty to the world and try to see a plan and place and purpose neatly wrapped and packaged up in bundles showing how to be bound up with another, in common orbit mapped.   But only the smallest quanta join together at distance, not just rounding out their separate rings. …

BTT #51: Flint River

Flint River · I had once Watched these cold waters With the calm Precision Of one who had decided To Sink beneath them. · Another River is flowing In this bed From that day When promises filled pockets With the weight of stones · Walking now Upon a gray path On the bank, Stones just …

BTT #49: Soap Dispenser – Montgomery – Alabama – 2018

“We’re here because we just want to wash our hands.”  Photo of a public parks soap dispenser showing a vandalized Great Seal of the City of Montgomery, Alabama in 2018.  Photo by Lona Gynt. Soap Dispenser - Montgomery - Alabama - 2018 · We’re here because we just want to wash our hands After making waters. As …

BTT #37: Is Epistemology a Whore or a Mother or Both?

  Is Epistemology a Whore or a Mother or Both? Truth, it seems, is rarely lacking leaven. A wise woman said it hurts only if you believe it. The most tenacious con is self-deception. Truth may have its way, but perhaps is merely written by the victors. Whether it is a sword or salve depends upon the …

BTT #31: A Death in the Wild

  A Death in the Wild                 · A tree grows Not to be harvested But to fall Crashing down Violently among the straight Pillars of its kin With no flat Stump to gaze cleanly Back at the Sun like a Forgotten tombstone sealing Roots that cannot find The body That has been pressed to …