Ruthless Winter blows unceremoniously intense – leaves a mess. (For RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge: mess/intense; and for BrewNSpew’s weekly prompt: ceremony. Image from personal collection.)
Author: V.J. Knutson
Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.
Story Worthy
Kindness encourages stories from those too reluctant to share from youth full of inspiration from musicians just developing even from the discouraged unaware their tale
Cured
Grandma! the word wraps me in bubbly warmth – an invasion of limbs impress upon my heart – best mood-altering prescription ever! (Tuesdays I borrow
Define Evil
I loathe The Man whose power bulges out of waistbands, whose double chins wag double talk, who equates dollars with immunity, claims superiority. Whose dominance
First Love
We laid beneath the stars our youth tingling, dared to dream cosmic – Thought I landed in love’s lap, till summer waned and you were
Brown Creeper
Full sun, river dons an icy blue, white banks blind, light hits water – bedazzled burst – I seek an angle. Banditry of chickadees noisily
