pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.
Quiet [Haiku]
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Author Archives: B Gourley
“Fame is a fickle food” (1702) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the
Farmer's corn
Men eat of it and die
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PROMPT: Secret Skill
Mind control. I can control my mind with my mind.
[NOTE: I’m not sure what “secret” has to do with it. Anything one blabs across the internet is — by definition — not a secret. Though the skill I mention takes place in a purely subjective realm, so — in that sense — might remain unknown to the general public.]
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DAILY PHOTO: Night Parade
Wetland [Haiku]
narrow channel,
waving reeds on each side,
boat glides blindly through.
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PROMPT: Weather
Partly cloudy.
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“Time to Rise” by Robert Louis Stevenson [w/ Audio]
A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said:
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?"
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Orbits [Haiku]
spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.
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DAILY PHOTO: A Green & Stony Hill, Mussoorie
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Jacaranda [Haiku]
Jacarandas bloom:
thousands of miles from home,
but no less purple.
