DAILY PHOTO: Taiwan by Night

Night Market by Penglai Elementary School

DAILY PHOTO: Tree & Temple, Bangalore

In the Shadows [Haiku]

Morning Glories sit,
coolly, in the shadow of
Mexican Sunflowers.

DAILY PHOTO: Lalbagh Botanical Garden

“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer [w/ Audio]

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose busom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

PROMPT: People Say

Daily writing prompt
Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.
There is nothing that I hope everyone would say about me. I would wish friends to say, "He's tolerable in the right dose." I would wish my enemies to say "He's a mean sonofabitch." I would wish those who don't know me to keep their mouths' shut about me. I would hope salesmen and missionaries would say, "He's the kind of guy whose door is not worth knocking on."

Cormorant Stitching [Haiku]

a cormorant weaves
into and over water:
no trace but ripples.

“O sweet spontaneous” by E.E. Cummings [w/ Audio]

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
   
    fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

  beauty  how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods

  (but

true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

  thou answerest

them only with

  spring)

PROMPT: Admiration

What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

Give anonymously and without expectation of having something named after them or gaining publicity.

River Ripples [Haiku]

ripples march
across the glassy river --
 faced by a reed phalanx.