deer eyes walker.
jumbo jets scream overhead,
but it heard stick crack.
Urban Forest [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Chicago River
PROMPT: Word
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
THE. Having a definite article contributes to an overly developed sense of specialness and entitlement, bordering on the narcissistic [or should I say, “bordering on A narcissistic” ? ]
Seriously though, I’d like to believe I’ve already jettisoned words with no value-added, or attempt to do so.
Carlin discussed a huge list of euphemisms and weasel words contributing to the weakening of the language, but I try to only use those words to poke fun at the people who use them – e.g. “pre-owned.” Those words function to point out attempts to be manipulative, and so I wouldn’t eliminate them, because that’s an important function.
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DAILY PHOTO: Church on a Hillside
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DAILY PHOTO: Boats on the Danube
Golden Yellow [Haiku]
lurch & stop: the bee moves erratically amid yellow blooms.
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DAILY PHOTO: Buda Palace [i.e. Budavári Palota]
Lily Pac-Man [Senryū]
Pac-Men multiply: sought by too few upside-down lily “ghosts.”
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Cross Movement [Haiku]
water flows - mutely - below the train which roars through, hourly
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Self Portrait [Common Meter]
So many historic figures
whose look we think we know.
Did Jesus of Nazareth sport
hippie hair & a halo?
Perhaps, he did have quite long hair
but not the tawny blonde
of which so many "portraitists"
seemed to be quite fond.
The Shakespeare that we recognize
is drawn from memory.
Kings oft declared true depiction
a form of treachery.
Past commoners' appearances
are lost in bygone days.
We know Van Gogh from a mad mind,
and know him thirty ways.
Do you know whose look we do know?
Every teen now alive.
There're pics from every angle
stored on redundant drives.
