DAILY PHOTO: Széchenyi Lánc Híd Lions in Lego & Stone

Five Wise Lines from Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore

In the drowsy dark caves of the mind / dreams build their nest with fragments / dropped from day’s caravan.

From the solemn gloom of the temple / children run out to sit in the dust, / God watches them play / and forgets the priest.

The wind tries to take the flame by storm / only to blow it out.

The same sun is newly born in new lands / in a ring of endless dawns.

When death comes and whispers to me, / “Thy days are ended.” / let me say to him, “I have lived in love / and not in mere time.” / He will ask, “Will thy songs remain?” / I shall say, “I know not, but this I know / that often when I sang I found my eternity.

Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore is in the public domain and can be read at sites such as:

Fireflies is available at PoetryVerse

Van Gogh Palette [Haiku]

black-eyed susans
 nudge me into Van Gogh's world,
  but not too deeply.

DAILY PHOTO: Statues of St. Stephen’s Basilica

Algae Pond [Haiku]

algae-covered pond:
provides a blank-slate
for shadow art.

DAILY PHOTO: Wall Mural in Bangalore

DAILY PHOTO: Van Gogh-esque Murals at Airlines, Bangalore

DAILY PHOTO: Udaipur Wall Art

Scream [Free Verse]

The Scream (1893); Edvard Munch
brain numb.
 voice dumb.
 
a wicked harmonic
 builds in the core -

tuned to volcanically
 vibrant skies.

flash fires of feeling
 riffle through the body.

the tone dials
 into a whine
 
that bursts into 
 a scream.

Limerick of Richard Dadd

Titania Sleeping (1857); Richard Dadd
An English painter named Richard Dadd
 went completely stark raving madd.
  He stayed in asylums -
  Broadmoor to Bedlam.
 For stabbing to death his dear old dadd.