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PROMPT: Blind Description
Stunningly statuesque and not to be trusted.
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Silk Road Vagabond [Free Verse]
Dusty trails & caravans.
Traders & spice
slow walking
toward coin.
A thousand merchants,
a thousand tongues,
& lingua franca confusion.
Dazed & dreary
every eve.
Wired each morn.
Sleeping under starry skies
with long silences between
bleating goats or screeching hawks.
Dog, companion & security guard,
barks only when someone approaches,
and there is so much space
to lend wide berth.
Silk Road vagabonds
walk the path alone:
exploiting and dropping
opportunities at will.
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Infinite Regress [Free Verse]
The sweep of trees
forms a mandala.
The eye roams over it,
looking for a center
that doesn't exist.
Those roving eyes
rove & repeat:
caught in an
infinite loop.
And I wonder what hides
in the arc of trees?
What monsters mimic
the sinuous spine
of those pointy trees?
Whose eyes catch
the fine light,
reflecting back a
burning bright-yellow?
What lives unseen?
What flows unbidden?
What empties out,
but returns?
and returns?
and returns...
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Willow River [Haiku]
PROMPT: Self-Description
New & Improved! Now with recyclable packaging!
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Columbus Limerick
There was an explorer named Christopher Columbus who entered the New World to fanfare of trumpets. He thought the Bahamans were Hindu Brahmins. His map wasn't so good as his compass.
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PROMPT: Dinosaur
Fred. Fred the dinosaur. He was one of those long-necked, humpy-backed, vegan models.
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Foo Dog [Haiku]
guardian dogs,
sculpted or painted: how do
they fool the spirits?
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Graveyard [Haiku]
grand monuments,
overgrown with moss & weeds,
for Dead long forgotten.
