PROMPT: Best Compliment

Daily writing prompt
What was the best compliment you’ve received?

“I wouldn’t have done it that way, but that method has your name written all over it.”

Deceased [Free Verse]

Photograph taken in Greenwood Cemetery of New Orleans, Louisiana.
clouds drift over
the cemetery -

unseen by all those
upturned eyes.

What a glorious day
to be deceased!

Stalker [Kyōka]

Photograph of a raccoon taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area near Slidell, Louisiana.
stealthy raccoon 
stalks up on trashcans -
as lion to gazelle.
having reached its target,
sends lid clattering down.

DAILY PHOTO: Rusty Bridge

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Photograph of a rusty drawbridge in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area near Slidell, Louisiana.

Cold Bayou [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area near Slidell, Louisiana.
gators sleep:
buried in muddy banks;
a lonely bird flies.

PROMPT: Cross-Country

Daily writing prompt
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?

Could be any or all of the above, plus camel, foot, or snowmobile — depending on the country, of course.

I can’t say how I’d take a cross-country trip without knowing which country it is that I’m crossing. Vatican City frowns on you driving a bus through it, Russia is too long to do entirely on cross-country skis, and one can’t transit Bolivia in a ferry.

Classing It Up [Lyric Poem]

Photograph of "Le Toilet," a Mona Lisa-festooned Port-o-Potty in downtown Decatur, Georgia -- in front of the Old Courthouse.
One can't class up a Porta Potty
With French or fancy works of art.
For each is like a ghetto squatty
Where one fears to sit... or even fart.

Locus [Common Meter]

One clump of flowers has the power
To lure the eye’s focus.
The background blurs as mind infers
Which hue shall be the locus.

DAILY PHOTO: Lake, Low & Blue

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Photograph taken of Lake Hartwell in Georgia, under deep blue skies.

Naked Wisdom [Haiku]

Photograph of a barren tree taken on the Butch Kennedy Trail, near Lake Hartwell, in South Carolina.
one bare tree
knew not to bud or bloom
before the last freeze.