dead roots:
sinuous as a river,
luxuriant as hair.
Mimicry [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Lalbagh Lake (Kanakanapalya Lake)
PROMPT: Companion
Who do you spend the most time with?
I’m with Myself all the time, and that guy gets on my last nerve.
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PROMPT: Name Change
Harry Savage.
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The Cough [Free Verse]
Remember the days
when you dreaded
a scratch at the back
of your throat --
harbinger of a cough
that you thought
would get you rushed off
to quarantine.
Or, at least, get a footlong swab
shoved through your nasal cavity.
Best case, it would put all eyes upon you,
as the public wondered whether
you were their Typhoid Mary --
(Except Mary was asymptomatic,
and - clearly - you were not.)
We all learned that the one cough
that one can never suppress
is the one that you desperately
wish to.
That cough won't be silenced.
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PROMPT: Three Books
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
This poetry collection teaches that most challenging of human skills: how to be insanely confident that you can do anything without being a jerk about it. (Also, how to see beauty beyond the societal consensus of what’s beautiful.)
Zhuangzi by ZhuangziThe virtues of a carefree, spontaneous, minimalist, and down-to-earth approach to living explained through tiny stories.
The Tragedies of William Shakespeare by William ShakespeareA master class in things that can turn a life into a tragedy.
Titus Andronicus: Live by the sword = tragedy (An eye for an eye, and everyone dies.)
Romeo & Juliet: Grudges (+ Lust) = tragedy
Julius Caesar: handing your adversary the mic (/ the fickleness of crowds) = tragedy
Hamlet: indecisiveness = tragedy (i.e. On or off the crazy-bus.)
Othello: jealousy = tragedy
Macbeth: excessive ambition = tragedy
King Lear: needing gratuitous signs of affection = tragedy
Timon of Athens: expectations of reciprocity = tragedy
Anthony & Cleopatra: mixing one’s love and work lives = tragedy
Coriolanus: a crotchety old warrior in peace time = tragedy
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PROMPT: Brings Joy
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
Feel gratitude, daily.
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DAILY PHOTO: A Bangalore Bungalow
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PROMPT: Friend
What quality do you value most in a friend?
Thoughtful, & conversationally fluent, on a variety of topics.
Must not play the bagpipes.
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PROMPT: Religion
Do you practice religion?
Not even a little.
I thought of starting my own, but having seen what people have done with ones founded by genuinely wise and good individuals (e.g. Buddha & Jesus,) I became preemptively disheartened about the prospects for one started by the likes of me.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 