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.
Shit Creek [Limerick]
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Reflection [Haiku]
statue gazes down
as if viewing the painting
by trees on water
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DAILY PHOTO: Tikal Temple Tops Taken from Temple IV
One Day… [Haiku]
a plank of wood
floats downriver past houses
clustered on the bank.
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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.
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Foot-tapping Seagull [Kyōka]
a Seagull stands
at a respectful distance
from a fish stall,
waiting for the fishmonger
to do the right thing.
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Nightmare Hotel [Free Verse]
The image was hung on the wall
in an otherwise clean and well-
managed business hotel.
I can't really say that I'd ever had
that particular nightmare before
I checked into the room,
But I know I've had it many times
since.
Set atop a post on a brutal white
sand beach in a stifling burlap
onesie -- a onesie that one
would have to have been sewn into,
for it had no zippers, buckles,
buttons, or Velcro.
What was the nightmare?
To be seen, while not seeing?
Suffocating slowly -- held under
the high tide with waterlogged
cloth clinging to my face?
Arms pinioned as the seabirds
went to work on tearing through
cloth and skin in as few
vicious pecks as possible --
pristine white growing
blood crimson stains,
running down the pole,
dripping onto the sand.
All of the above?
I never have a good memory of it.
That's why I'm not sure that I
didn't have the nightmare
even before I ever saw that
poster on the wall of an
ordinary hotel -- far, far
from home.
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DAILY PHOTO: From Prague Castle on an Overcast Day
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Forbidden [Free Verse]
One afternoon, in the
Forbidden City,
People roam about --
Sightseeing.
The very next morning,
A single line of tracks
Through freshly fallen snow
Cuts across the very
Same yard.
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PROMPT: Ambitious DIY
Trying to get squirrels out of the attic. They did me like Macaulay Culkin / Kevin McCallister in Home Alone. Ultimately, had to call experts (pest control, not hitmen,) and they made short work of it.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 