PROMPT: Technology

Daily writing prompt
How has technology changed your job?

Like everyone who has taken to using AI, I’m training my replacement. So, that’s always an awkward time.

Winter View [Senryū]

Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India.
with trees bare, one sees
what Spring won't reveal:
monkeys don't care.

DAILY PHOTO: Holy Lords Transfiguration Convent, Tbilisi

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Photograph of a chapel at the Holy Lords Transfiguration Convent in Tbilisi, Georgia --  Queen Darejani Palace.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
amid wildflowers:
city disappears.

PROMPT: Goals

Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

In playing football, I find telling linebackers “no” is not beneficial. Words are strange things, at once infinitely powerful or powerless, depending upon context and will.

Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]

Photograph taken from a tower of the Ananuri Fortress Complex, looking at the Zhinvali Reservoir.
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,

carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.

From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.

As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.

Two Ways to Go [Haiku]

highway parts landscape;
butterflies jink and loiter
as cars speed through.

DAILY PHOTO: Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi

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Photograph of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia taken from the hills across the river.

Nomad [Free Verse]

Photograph taken in the Parsi Temple of Baku, Azerbaijan.
One who doesn't feel 
a lot at home anywhere
Begins to feel a little
at home everywhere.

He sees not strangeness
in strangers --
No more than he sees
in himself.

Any one place is not
greater nor lesser
than anywhere else.

Lands of gold and riches
are as likely devoid of
authenticity - of soul -
as impoverished places
are dripping with it.