DAILY PHOTO: Hualien River

PROMPT: Named After

If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

Maybe an atomic bomb. It would be nice to get in the last word.

“Memory” by William Butler Yeats [w/ Audio]

One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.

PROMPT: Laugh

What makes you laugh?

Humor… and video of skater kids busting their nards failing astride a railing.

Spring Rain [Haiku]

sweet rain scent, &
sound of spatter on leaves, &
one drop on the face.

Lone Fisherman [Haiku]

one fisherman,
boat undulating on the
lake at sunrise.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata

Starry Nights [Verse / Free Verse Mutt]

I’m stunned by all the starry nights
Beyond the sprawling city’s lights:
Swirls made of so many colors —
The dark, the light, middling others.

What eternal infinite
Exists out there between
All those stars?

All the dust and nothingness
Of that cold, unbounded expanse
Dances in the hot shell
Of my skull.

DAILY PHOTO: Golden Trumpets

Big City Moon [Haiku]

in the darkness
beyond the big city lights,
a moon looms.