dogtrax

A place to gather words before they get lost.

A watercolor landscape in the dreamer's mind; what Spring thoughts might find

for Algot

Balanced at the top of the mountain, looking down in silence, no words filled the gap, no words needed, as we drank in the valley

a Tanka of a moment for #verselove

Louis Prima – he ain't gonna whisper, nope, Louis' gonna shout - gonna shout my ear out but I'm all game to leaning in, imagine him sing, to let him bring the biggest noise in the biggest voice anyone's ever called, the musical siren of New Orleans, jumping – jiving – wailing off the wall

from the image: https://flic.kr/p/2oj1mGT

We settle into our seats as the orchestra of quiet begins

to play inside the living room - a mix of Cage and Copeland -

our fingers tapping in time together, light drum skins, we begin a rhythm

for #verselove

While Bill Martin Waits

v, too busy chatting with z, didn't even see the coconut tree, missed it by a mile and so it was left to c to find v and then z, and bring them both back to the coconut tree, only to realize that b, d and g were now lost, too, you see, and so what a mess it was that morning with Bill Martin waiting at the coconut tree

with apologies to Bill Martin (and his co-writer John Archambault) and the letters of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

for #verselove

Pensive thoughts on the Frost Trail, near where the named one taught, but what?

My journal remains vacant this morning, thinking of walls, and farms, and plots of land

and squabbles within, the metaphors of plow, until a raft of sunlight hits the rock, and then I write

a poem of something lost, inspired by a quiet moment on the trail named for the poet, Robert Frost

for OpenWrite #VerseLove

Whose boop is this beep?

A number to call keeps me wondering if I'm in a deep online loop

Whose beep is this boop?

via https://afterthebeep.tel/

Items in the Magic Box:

1guitar 2saxophone 3pencil 4notepad 5coffee cup 6flowers 7comic book 8newspaper 9banana 10tuner

Opening up a can of tuner guitar, though, the banana saxophone sounds increasingly odd; just jotting ideas down in the gutter of the newspaper and reading only comics, remixing Archie in a notebook; Creativity, blooming like a flowers in a coffee cup

for OpenWrite

You are still there,

wearing the limbs of the Weeping Willow as a hat or headdress or hair, like magic from the book we looked at together as the sun set,

and when your mom, first, and then my dad, called us in for dinner, leaves fading at dusk, both of us shouted: not yet! not yet! not yet!

#youareherepoetry

Listen: https://sodaphonic.com/audio/6iL7zE9DONUljXg0jNhI

#Daring to be #Original, but still #Gathering #Time to #Rehearse with #A sa#Xophone

for OpenWrite