footprints in stone -- outside the temple; how do Buddhists step so hard?
Footprints [Haiku]
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
DAILY PHOTO: Bhubing Palace Terraced Garden, Chiang Mai
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Hit by a Hard Word [Free Verse]
How is being hit by a hard word different from being hit by a brick or a bat? To burn, the spark of a hard word must find some kindling inside the recipient, elsewise it can't ignite. If someone points at me and screams: "YOU ARE SUBPAR AT ALGEBRA!" I remain unwounded. [I'd like to say that it doesn't burn simply because it's true, but the truth or falsity of hard words is -- perhaps sadly -- not a major ignition factor. The kindling is a thing that sits inside one -- something that makes one care, probably a complex mélange of factors. The truth of hard words? That is an outside factor.] Even if I were to discover that, to the person who issued the insult, there is no greater disparagement than to cast aspersions upon a person's middle school-level mathematics competency, I would remain unwounded. If I were to feel any sort of way about uncovering that knowledge, it would be to feel sort of bad for the person who issued the taunt. Now, how to burnproof one's soul, that is the question?
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Imposing Clouds [Tanka]
imposing clouds seem to hover over the palace, but then one sees the drift, and they are drifting nearer.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Old Royal Palace of Ayutthaya
Jung Limerick
There was a psychiatrist named Jung who thought the Unconscious was far-flung -- like Sandman's "The Dreaming" that you've seen on streaming: farfetched and fictional -- with heroes, unsung.
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Freud Limerick
There once was a psychiatrist named Freud who thought all were obsessed with filling a void... a void in the pants! Though some looked askance, and those whose cigars weren't cigars were annoyed.
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Estonia Limerick
There was a soft-spoken jeweler from Estonia who often worked in cubic zirconia. He'd never tell a lie, but came across quite shy, Some thought they'd got the best deal in Estonia.
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Living Backwards [Tanka]
young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
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DAILY PHOTO: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Tiger Riding for Beginners 