Category Archives: Animals

PROMPT: Best Excuse

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Daily writing prompt
What is the best excuse you have heard lately?
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“I was tossed by a bison.”

DAILY PHOTO: Mussoorie Macaque Portrait

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Photograph of a Macaque monkey taken in Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, India.

Rogue Ducks [Senryū]

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Photograph of Neermahal Palace on Rudrasagar Lake in Tripura, India.
ducks float
 on the royal lake
  in breach of edict.

Bird’s Eye [Senryū]

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the bird's head turns
 so one eye is upon me,
  something grows cold.

DAILY PHOTO: Log-Loving Creatures of Mysore Zoo

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Photograph of a bear taking rest on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a leopard on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a snake in the reptile house of Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a Chimp with a stick at Mysore Zoo

DAILY PHOTO: Bull

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Photograph of a Brahma Bull taken near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, India.

Duck out of Water [Epigram]

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Photograph taken in the Halasuru neighborhood of Bangalore of ducks in water.
The "duck out of water"
   might just take to flight.

Nature DGAF [Haiku]

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Photograph of bitterweed around a grave in a cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wildflowers grow
 around an unattended grave;
  pooped on by birds.

Toad’s Time [Senryū]

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Photograph of a Fire-Bellied Toad taken near Gyeongju, South Korea.
toad looks primed to leap;
 i watch... and watch..., but no.
  glancing back; it's gone.

Fawn [Haiku]

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fawn rests
 beneath the big leaves
  of new saplings