Daily writing prompt
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
Poet, Philosopher, Philosopher-Poet.
PROMPT: Three Jobs
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Category Archives: Blogs
Five Wise Lines from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
All art is quite useless.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are fascinating.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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Understory Lore [Tanka]
in a thriving wood, sits a barren patch of understory. oh what tales locals tell about the patch that can't grow!
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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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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.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 