amid pines, blue sky
Autumn days masquerade
as Summertime.
Amid the Pines [Haiku]
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Angry Monkey [Common Meter]
Angry Monkey pops his head up,
behind glass at the Zoo.
I sympathize. If I were stuck
there, I'd be angry, too.
Sitting 'round in a monkey suit
with walls one sees right through.
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Adrift [Haiku]
adrift on a lake:
matched by the clouds
that float overhead.
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DAILY PHOTO: Huge Knockers of Cartagena
PROMPT: Villain
Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why?
The more kleptocratic billionaires take control of the world, the more sympathetic The Joker (as played by Heath Ledger in Dark Knight) is over billionaire Bruce Wayne, with the latter’s willingness to abandon principles and listen in on everyone’s cellphone to win.
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What’d I Do? [Senryū]
Forsaken Village [Haiku]
underwater:
fish swim through submerged huts --
forsaken village.
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Yielding [Tanka]
beneath cypress trees
stands a small pagoda;
top tier damaged
by storm-dropped limbs;
it won't outlast those trees.
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DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of Bogota’s CBD from Monserrate
PROMPT: Longest Book
I’m not sure. I’ve read a few north of 1,000 pages. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand leap to mind. I don’t read too many very long books as I generally find they are badly in need of editing. [That is certainly the case for Atlas Shrugged.] And, you know, they take a long time to read.
The fattest book on my physical bookshelf at the moment is Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science, but I’m pretty sure I never got through that one.
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