Daily writing prompt
What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?
I once slipped and fell on ice, and it was like an outtake from a Jackie Chan movie.
PROMPT: Out of a Movie
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Author Archives: B Gourley
Frame of Reference [Free Verse]
a butterfly hangs
upside down,
but it seems upside down
is as meaningless an
an abstraction for it
as the two million km/h
that a human sweeps,
spins, expands, etc.
through space
is for the person who
feels only the couch
against his backside.
what must it be to not know
upside down -- to feel free
to fall, knowing the air
will catch one?
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Fungi Time [Haiku]
mushroom stands tall;
wasn’t there the day before,
may be gone the next.
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FIVE WISE LINES [June 2026]
When I was younger I could remember anything,
Mark twain
whether it had happened or not;
but my faculties are decaying now and soon
I shall be able to remember only the things
that never happened.
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
Plutarch [paraphrased]
but a fire to be kindled.”
Judge a man by his questions
Voltaire
rather than his answers.
Resist much, obey little.
Walt whitman; “To the states“
People don’t take trips —
John steinbeck
trips take people.
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DAILY PHOTO: Purple & Yellow
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PROMPT: Photo
Daily writing prompt
Go on a walk today and share a photo of something that catches your eye.
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DAILY PHOTO: Danube Bank, Bratislava
PROMPT: First Book
Daily writing prompt
What’s the first book you ever finished and still remember to this day?
I have a vague early remembrance of Robinson Crusoe.
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Understory [Haiku]
big-leafed saplings
line the understory:
wee cascade murmurs.
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DAILY PHOTO: Yellow River Park
Tiger Riding for Beginners 