Only the Blessed of Lethe's dews
May stoop to drink. And yet,
Were their Elysium mine to lose,
Could I, sans all repining, choose
Life's sorrows to forget?
“Lethe” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]
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Author Archives: B Gourley
Slow Fire [Lyric Poem]
Explosion in slow motion
Rocks the boats that line the ocean:
Swaying, swaying, they swing to and fro!
Metronomic masts set to tempo, s l o w.
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DAILY PHOTO: Sevan Lake, Armenia
Let it Float [Lyric Poem]
Sans fear of dying,
The angst of trying
Is felt and left
To float.
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PROMPT: For a Day
Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
A Buddha / Bodhisattva (if there’s one about these days.) Why? To feel how his (or her) subjective experience compares to my own.
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“The Bustle in a House” (1108) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted opon Earth --
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity --
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PROMPT: DIY Project
Switching out a toilet. There’s more to doing it right than it might seem, and you’ve got to get it right the first time or start all over.
Though the most frustrating project was probably wallpapering. While not a hard job, the art of it eluded me.
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Crazy Tree [Senryū]
tree that sprawls
twists & winds chaotically:
strength from crazy
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On Mud & Lotus [Free Verse]
The saying goes:
“No mud - no lotus!”
But I can’t help but notice
That the flower is long-stemmed,
Raising it high above the mud.
A tropical newbie,
I used to confuse
Lotuses & Water Lilies.
Then I learned the simplest
Way to distinguish the flowers
(From a distance)
Is that Lily pads
Rest on the water,
While Lotus leafs
Also try to rise
above the muddy water.
I can’t help but wonder whether
Our admiration has made the
Lotus too good for its mud?
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DAILY PHOTO: Skyline From the Concrete Beach, Chicago
