PROMPT: Fate/Destiny

Daily writing prompt
Do you believe in fate/destiny?

I don’t believe. I don’t disbelieve. I have insufficient data on which to draw a conclusion.

Orbit [Haiku]

Photograph of two marble spheres in the Westside Park of Atlanta.
two bodies 
orbiting each other:
without distance, crash.

DAILY PHOTO: Shirley C. Franklin Pumping Station

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Photograph of the Bellwood Quarry Reservoir and the Shirley C. Franklin Pumping Station.

PROMPT: Phase in Life

Daily writing prompt
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

At least some part of me is always ready to move on.

However, I am missing the phase of human development in which the preponderance of social change advanced the Enlightenment values of tolerance, democratic governance, and rule of law.

Shit Creek [Limerick]

Photograph taken in Budapest, Hungary at the City Park.
The sign said that one cannot swim,
But the chances of that were quite slim.
It looked like pea soup,
But the color of poop,
To swim up Shit Creek you'd have to be dim.

Reflection [Haiku]

Photograph taken on Margit Island in the middle of the Danube River.
statue gazes down
as if viewing the painting
by trees on water

DAILY PHOTO: Tikal Temple Tops Taken from Temple IV

Photograph of the tops of Temples I and II taken from atop Temple IV at Tikal in Guatemala.
Photograph of the tops of Temples II, I, and III (left to right) from atop Temple IV at Tikal in Guatemala.

One Day… [Haiku]

Photograph of the Main River as it flows through Frankfurt am Main.
a plank of wood
floats downriver past houses
clustered on the bank.

PROMPT: For a Day

Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

Any successful standup comic. To gain a practical understanding of the downside and the struggle.

I wouldn’t care to be a billionaire because it would be just my luck that it’d be the day people wised up and the revolt began, and I could say the same thing with respect to world leaders.

Foot-tapping Seagull [Kyōka]

Photograph of a Seagull near the fish market in Helsinki, Finland.
a Seagull stands 
at a respectful distance
from a fish stall,
waiting for the fishmonger
to do the right thing.