Category Archives: Art

DAILY PHOTO: Tiny Planets

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Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.
Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.
Photograph of orb sculptures in Atlanta's Westside Park.

PROMPT: Emojis

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Daily writing prompt
What are your favorite emojis?
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Faceless turd emoji.

I use my own system of criticism that inverts the usual scale, meaning that getting a zero (turds) is quite good (and increasingly rare,) and — unlike stars — if you ever reach a five-turd rating you are truly the worst. It saves time in conveying my thoughts on all sorts of things.

Try to live your life:

No poop emoji.

DAILY PHOTO: Great Chinese Warriors in Incheon’s Chinatown

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Photograph of a statue of Guan Yu taken in Incheon, Korea's Chinatown.
Photograph of the Enthroned Guan Yu on Incheon Chinatown's Samgukji Mural Street.
Photograph from Samgukji Mural Street in Incheon Korea's Chinatown of two warriors clashing -- from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

DAILY PHOTO: Seesaw Statue in Gyeongju

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Photograph featuring classic Korean architecture and a seesaw statue. Taken in Gyeongju, South Korea.

DAILY PHOTO: Melaka Murals in a Chinese Style

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Photo of wall mural of a dark horse and a white horse with Chinese text and stamp. Taken in Melaka, Malaysia's Chinatown [Jonker Street area.]
Photo of a mural of ferry laborers taken in Melaka, Malaysia.
Photo of a mural of a lady showered in flower petals taken near the riverwalk in Melaka, Malaysia.

Stone Still [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Buddha Park outside Vientiane, Laos. 
stone Buddha:
 so still it gathers moss;
  I roll away.

Chinese Painting [Tanka]

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Photograph taken at sundown in Vang Vieng, Laos.
sunlight washes out
 the distant mountains; 
  they look like
 an old Chinese painting --
 ink faded with age.

Dragonfly Eye [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph taken at Don Mueang Temple in the north Bangkok suburbs, features waterlilies in the fore and guardian statues in the background. 
The dragonfly strafing lilies 
 doesn't know how very silly
 a bantam taller than a ram
 seems to a ram tall as a filly.

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

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Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India. 
temple wall
 overgrown with weeds;
  idols kept pristine.

PROMPT: Tattoo

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Daily writing prompt
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
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I would not like a tattoo. 
 I would not like one - old or new. 
 I wouldn't like one in a Zoo. 
 I wouldn't like one in a canoe. 
 I would not like one, 
   Ham though I am, 
 I would not like any body-spam.