the hawk swoops & banks;
i feel its flapping wings
as it passes.
Hawk Bank [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Baby Sculptures
Taken at the 2023 Republic Day Flower Show in Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore.
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PROMPT: Sacrifice
What sacrifices have you made in life?
I just turned down a jelly doughnut the other day
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Winged Deception [Haiku]
Duty-Free Limerick
There once was a lazy sales clerk who didn’t want clients to think her a jerk. The solution, you see, was the airport duty-free, where there’d be no obligation to work. [And the salary would be a nice perq.]
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PROMPT: Fruits
List your top 5 favorite fruits.
5.) Rambutan
4.) Blueberry
3.) Honeydew Melon
2.) Yelakki Banana
1.) Mango
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Yellow [Haiku]
Christmas Cat [Haiku]
sitting on a wall, beside the potted poinsettias, a cat grooms itself.
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Platform Living [Haiku]
a family lies
on cardboard mattresses
to keep bone from stone.
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PROMPT: Freedom
What does freedom mean to you?
It means having the space to do as one wishes as well as to express oneself — both without running afoul of law and governance — providing one isn’t limiting others’ ability to be free.
It fascinates me how freedom is interpreted. First, many seem to think freedom is a state of comfort. It’s not. It’s not because if a society is truly free, others will have the room to make decisions that are outside your, personal, comfort zone. If your “free world” feels comfortable to you, it’s probably just a personal brand of authoritarianism.
Second, many people seem to think that being free means they can do or say as they wish without experiencing consequences. Of course, that would make that individual free, but their critic would be unfree.
I don’t think being free means any given individual or group will have a comfortable life devoid of consequences for actions and statements, but they will have maximum allowable capacity to make those decisions and statements. In short, freedom is not for the weak.
