This is Part Four of the “Carrot Ranch Coven Series.” LOL! My Word-Witch is back! On Sabbatical – Part One Rabbits – Part Two Shadow Woman – Part Three The Carrot Ranch January 23, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that is optimistic. Feel free to explore optimism in […]
I miss my Word-Witch clothes… luckily I found a file with lots of witchy-ness to make you smile. 🥳 As always, click the book image to find the book on Amazon.com. In December 2022, I read Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal – Volume One & Two. The print version […]
This week’s #TankaTuesday challenge was an Ekphrastic challenge featuring a painting by George Henry Boughton, called The Lady of the Snows. Find the challenge post HERE. Boughton, George Henry; The Lady of the Snows; Walker Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-lady-of-the-snows-97671 a covert meeting— she stays for her one truelove fiery passions burn wintery winds rough bluster does naught […]
The first thing I remember is snuggling in my grandmother’s arms. She always smelled like apple kuchen. When the dark dreams threatened, she was always there. Gram, a Swedish immigrant who married a Russian/German immigrant, set out to farm the great dust bowl of Kansas. My gramps wasn’t a farmer, but bootlegging liquor called his […]
pale winter sky, the color of turned milk an unfriendly wind skims across the pond cold as a whisper, caressing my icy cheeks the streetlamps aren’t on, but shadows creep coldness descends frosting the street conscious dreams create my reality end of day succeeds © Colleen M. Chesebro A quadrille for dVerse, a day late.
Word Craft Poetry 
Ooh good one! Highly appropriate for the prompt and the painting — well done!
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Thank you. It came to me in a flash 🌹
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Love how you used the Mona Lisa!
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It all just fix together perfect. 😇
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You are a pro. Beautiful. Deep.
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Thank you.
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I love that painting as well but would never have thought to have put the prompt words for the haiku and the painting together. Well done, Colleen. You mind is so brilliantly creative. Thanks for the coffee. My turn next 🙂
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Thanks Hugh. The crazy part is that it just came to me in a flash. I worry I might speak in Haiku! LOL. I love it 😃
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Haha, you’ve just invented a brand new language, Colleen. Maybe this is how we should all speak with each other in Ronovan’s haiku group. What fun that would be in trying to come up with answers to questions.
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Speaking in Haiku… LOL!
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Wow! I’m impressed.
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Thank you 💜
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Reblogged this on Reviews & Recommendations and commented:
Wow!
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The debate on the Monaliza smile is a big one, and many a news channels or writer has contemplated it.
As for the Haiku well it just seems to speak of the truth of Life. Beautiful and profoundly deep meaning.
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Thank you. My little Haiku seemed to fit her pensive smile 🌹🌹🌹
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I think you saw the two sides of the possibilities. For one I don’t so much see the smile on the left side of the painting. And one has to wonder if Leonardo captured her exact feelings in the eyes as the smile gives. I am rambling so I will end there.
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I could do a whole blog post about the Mona Lisa. I never realized how visual I am. No wonder I did not like doing accounting for a living! LOL!
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