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grasshopper

"Then returned to continue the war." I remember the optimism of the the space program in 1969, '70, '71, '72 balanced with the realization of needing to register for the draft in a few years,...

ornithologist

snail trail

rose.

My assignment for today's Thursdays at Two was to include an idiom, or even make one up, within a poem. I do this quite frequently anyway so it was no stretch, but still a fun exercise:


a poet's...

... tough one: Tomatoes are in soooo many things; they're like the Leatherman of vegetables... going with tomatoes :)

Leatherman multi-tool or Swiss Army knife ?

I read The Secret Garden and watched a circa '40's? movie on TCM years ago... both enjoyable :)

... "to reminisce with my old friends..."

garden snail

axon.

Throw some canned asparagus into a "cream of ___" soup maybe :)

Asparagus!

Golf or Frisbee golf ?

lol...

"If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with pants is more interesting." - Kirk Douglas

gangly

secret garden

Wonderful poem of Scotland, et al: "all my eye doth meet / Is mist and crag, not only on this height, / But in the world of thought and mental might!

"Silken is the falling moon" - Captain Cur; ...

cilia

muse.

chamber pot

One perfect day indeed :) Enjoyed!

"Quench the thirst" - Hasmukh Mehta; Quench the thirst... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82481/quench-the-thirst

Guesstimate the church is 80 km from Moscow (more via the river). Post USA Revolutionary war/pre-Civil war poet; definitely a sentimentalist poem as per his bio at Wikipedia... ...

muon.

:)

chamber music

canon

Enjoyed :)



my right hand: 2-haiku

the effects of a 16-lb bowling ball torqued at release endlessly for decades upon the hand

my pink hand's numbness
tortured wrist from lift and turn

Enjoyed E.B.'s poem very much... "These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger /
like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods." Maps can be quite expressive :)

"my dead...

rock festival