clouds drift over
the cemetery -
unseen by all those
upturned eyes.
What a glorious day
to be deceased!
Deceased [Free Verse]
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Category Archives: Life
PROMPT: 100-year-old
Dear Dust,
Congratulations. You will now have made it to more countries than I did in life. I’m jealous.
Yours truly,
You (but Hydrated & Animated)
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PROMPT: Grow
The ones involving eating. They provided the necessary nutrients.
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PROMPT: Fate/Destiny
I don’t believe. I don’t disbelieve. I have insufficient data on which to draw a conclusion.
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PROMPT: Phase in Life
Daily writing prompt
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
At least some part of me is always ready to move on.
However, I am missing the phase of human development in which the preponderance of social change advanced the Enlightenment values of tolerance, democratic governance, and rule of law.
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PROMPT: For a Day
Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
Any successful standup comic. To gain a practical understanding of the downside and the struggle.
I wouldn’t care to be a billionaire because it would be just my luck that it’d be the day people wised up and the revolt began, and I could say the same thing with respect to world leaders.
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PROMPT: Biggest Challenge
Daily writing prompt
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
I certainly have my ideas, but I’m not going to jinx it or create a self-fulfilling prophecy on the matter. Sometimes the easy is hard and the hard comes easy, and — above all — people suck at making predictions (except in the case of self-fulfilling prophesies.)
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PROMPT: Teenage Self
Be your authentic self.
And stop touching yourself so much.
But the first advice wouldn’t be understood, and the second would be ignored, so I’m not sure that it would be a productive undertaking.
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Dancing Dragon [Lyric Poem]
A dancing dragon winds
through streets of Chinatown.
Head pivots, nods, and turns
as it looks all around.
I hope its golden eye
will not catch sight of me
because its big, curved fangs
do not look so friendly.
You may say its paper,
and those teeth can't do harm,
but there's life in its moves
that's cause of my alarm.
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PROMPT: Shoes
Daily writing prompt
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
I don’t get attached. They’ll always let you down in the end. I took them to the Andes, the Himalaya — places most people only dream of going — but, ultimately, they just fell apart on me when I needed them most.
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