PROMPT: First Book

Daily writing prompt
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?

I have a vague early remembrance of Robinson Crusoe.

Understory [Haiku]

big-leafed saplings
line the understory:
wee cascade murmurs.

DAILY PHOTO: Yellow River Park

PROMPT: Profound Piece of Advice

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most profound piece of advice you’ve been given? Did you take it?

“Shut the hell up!” Sadly, more often than not, no.

Foggy Fort [Senryū]

Photograph taken atop Hrad Devín, near Bratislava on a foggy December day.
high on a hill fort --
enshrouded in clouds;
one can see for... meters?

Builder Limerick

Photograph of the inverted pyramid Radio Building in Bratislava, Slovakia.
A skilled Slovakian builder
got his plans and was bewildered.
They were upside down.
Had they been turned around
an Aide wouldn't 've fell from the basement, which killed her.

Animal Taxi Limerick

Photograph of an elephant on a truck taken in Sri Lanka at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
There once was an animal tow truck
that would taxi your horse or your duck.
Size wasn't deemed relevant
'til up showed an elephant,
and the overladen truck got stuck.

DAILY PHOTO: Amarin Plaza Phra Phrom Shrine, Bangkok

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Photograph of a Phra Phrom (Brahma) shrine in the Ratchaprasong area of  Bangkok, Thailand.
Amarin Plaza shrine near Chit Lom Metro Station in Bangkok, Thailand.

PROMPT: Unlimited Budget

Daily writing prompt
If you had an unlimited budget for 24 hours, what would you do?

I’d buy a round-trip ticket for a place distant and interesting. I’m presuming I could spend money on that day for something the benefit of which would come later (i.e. that nothing turns into pumpkin at the end of the day.) I would not want the inevitable cavity search that would come from buying and flying on the same day.

The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

Photograph of a Buddha head carving enveloped by Strangler Fig at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
On a scale from
"this is cozy"
to
"my skull is cracking,"
I wonder how the fig tree
at Wat Mahathat treats
the Buddha's head?