What have you been putting off doing? Why?
I’m putting off death for as long as I can remain healthy (by and large.) Because I like living.
PROMPT: Putting Off
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DAILY PHOTO: Gwalior City from the Hillfort
PROMPT: Grown Up
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
The first time I went drove to another state and stayed in a hotel on my own (late teens, obviously after getting a driver’s license — but a year or more before graduating high school.)
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Different Wavelengths [Lyric Poem]
The parrot stands, as if jilted.
The chipmunk sniffs, as if intrigued.
Parrot behaves ever so stilted.
Chipmunk is just hungry and fatigued.
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DAILY PHOTO: Chausath Yogini Temple of Morena
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LIMERICK
There was a Bedouin from the UAE
who never in his life had seen a tree.
Walking through lands
of endless sands,
he had nothing to hide behind to take a pee.
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CAMBODIA LIMERICK
There was a Cambodian archaeologist
who dug up temples in jungles – get the gist.
But one day his dig,
under a Strangler Fig,
got him strangled… or so claimed the botanist.
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PROMPT: Million Dollars
Daily writing prompt
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
THE POOR.
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Weeds [Haiku]
summer grasses
wave atop a once mighty fort
that's gone to seed.
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Bats [Haiku]
ancient temple:
bats strafe ambulators;
wing flaps puff on bare scalp.
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