flowers are rock stars: standing tall & proud before the swaying grass.
Flower Divas [Haiku]
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Author Archives: B Gourley
Waiting [Free Verse]
Waiting.
A space between.
Neither doing,
nor resting.
There's something in waiting
that lies beyond being.
An expectation without promise:
As with Vladimir & Estragon,
waiting on Beckett's Godot, or
the Old Man waiting
at Gao's Bus Stop,
There may not be a payoff.
Whatever it is in "waiting" that
distinguishes it from "being"
or "resting,"
it sucks!
All the excitement of expectation,
nullified by the possibility
that nothing will happen --
nothing good, nothing bad...
just a soul-sucking nothing.
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Five Wise Lines from Ben Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
Never confuse Motion with Action.
And Five Honorable Mentions:
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few his precepts!
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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DAILY PHOTO: Blessed Maria Gabriella – East Parish
DAILY PHOTO: Psychedelic Street Art of Chicago
The Nature of Art [Haiku]
in stone mosaics,
nature’s hand is more artful
than the artist’s.
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PROMPT: Advice
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Use free writing to break through writer’s block.
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Deer Stalking [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Dragon Wall in Chicago’s Chinatown
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Watcher [Haiku]
a heron surveys
the gently flowing river
with great patience.
