Photo: from rollingstone.com – the great Miles Davis
I'm Down With That
Buttery smooth back arched fingers softly teasing valves and slides, sublime scale down the spine groove that feeling, high hat counter bass seduction the room hangs on every sound, and although you’re not here but yet you are, please Miles keep wailing that horn.
For Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 66, Exploring Haiku, Melissa has invited us to write haiku that are a little edgy, a little offbeat. We can even call them “micropoetry” if need be. You don’t need to use a kigo. Have fun. Experiment.
Form: Haiku (5-7-5)
Three Haiku
showered, clean shirt on roast lamb with herbs and gravy gravy not on plate
impulsivity oh what a superb bargain I’ll take it back
more, more she cooed shameless seductive pedal sirens closing in
Photo: Taken at home in Augusta November 2022, Vianna – the black Schnauzer has just turned 14; Opal the white Schnauzer is only 4 and quite the communicator.
No More Screen Time
As she picks up her phone Opal pulls by paw to bring her hand back to stroking, she types on her lap top while Opal taps incessantly to bring her attention back, I have dog-eared my book so’s I can watch this dogged performance.
Moving not moving going forward not going coming back sideways not staying choosing unchoosing seeing not seeing hearing not hearing not listening standing still, rooted to this spot, always on some mind journey.
At dVerse Melissa is hosting Prosery (144 words of prose) with an invitation to write a piece of prose which includes the line “Publication – is the Auction Of the Mind.” from ‘Publication – is the Auction (788) by Emily Dickinson.
Political dogma, doctrine, manifesto are cholesterol for the brain, every century gives its own testimony. In the twentieth Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while serving a prison sentence, one of the elements of this is his outline of the Final Solution, along with his express interest in expanding Germany’s dominance in Europe. In 1932 Mussolini published his Doctrine of Fascism also an expansionist colonial plan. Franco and Peron had their own doctrines, while Japan twisted the Bushido code and embraced emperor system fascism. Stalin and Mao had variations of communist manifestos. In the twenty-first century Netanyahu has The Netanyahu Doctrine. Trump has the insidious authoritarian Project 2025, bastard child of the Heritage (sic) Foundation. Putin dreams of a new Soviet. Everyone wants a doctrinal wet dream it seems but, publication – is the auction of the mind. Every doctrine should be strangled at inception.
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