DAILY PHOTO: Infinite Buddhas
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Alone in the Cold [Haiku]
PROMPT: Failure
Daily writing prompt
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
In juggling one must fail a million times to have any hope.
But what is success and what is failure? I’m not sure I know.
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Illusory [Free Verse]
Nothing is what it seems,
or as it feels it should be.
The world is full of
smoke & mirrors --
neither here nor there...
And yet everywhere...
& everywhen.
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Vagabond [Lyric]
![Photograph of a statue of a young vagabond taken at Fo Guang Shan [佛光山,] near Kaohsiung, Taiwan.](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/img_0378.jpg)
Each Soul contains its Vagabond
- Who yearns to travel light & free -
But they load too much baggage on,
Then tether him to a big tree.
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DAILY PHOTO: Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine [花蓮縣忠烈祠]
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Nameless / 无名 [Lyric Poem]
![Photograph taken in Hualien, Taiwan at the Hualien Temple and Dongjing Temple (花蓮寺東淨寺) [Buddhist.]](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/img_1218.jpg)
They call me Nameless,
Well-known as fameless.
My plans are aimless.
My faults are blameless.
My chess is gameless.
My disgrace, shameless?
But my glasses are framed.
My passions are inflamed.
My wild horses are tamed,
And my arrows are aimed.
All due credit is claimed,
And nothing else remains.
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PROMPT: Autobiography
Daily writing prompt
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?
“And that’s how you do that!”
(I’m told that in medias res is the ideal narrative approach for memoirs.)
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Winter Springs [Haiku]
an eerie fog
weaves through the trees:
Winter hot springs.
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DAILY PHOTO: Beitou Park
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Tiger Riding for Beginners 