yellow fluff
clamped in a bird's beak -
now, the new leader.
All Eyes [Haiku]
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Salmon Skies [Free Verse]
Sun dips below the hill;
Light rises off the roof,
And the lowest clouds
Glow in salmon hues.
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DAILY PHOTO: Buda Palace in Winter
“A Question” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Fuzzy Moon [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Turquoise Waters of Koh Phi Phi
“A sepal, petal, and a thorn” (19) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn --
A flask of Dew -- A Bee or two --
A Breeze -- a caper in the trees --
And I'm a Rose!
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PROMPT: Freedom
Of the universe of all possible actions, one can choose to attempt any (or refrain from any) but those curtailed by a small number of laws intended to keep one from impinging upon the freedoms of others or imposing costs / burdens on them to which they did not consent, or by self-imposed limitations (e.g. one’s own ethical belief system or one’s physical / mental limitations.)
Often it is wrongly confused with comfort. A maximally free society is not maximally comfortable for anyone, because one has to accept that others will make all sorts of choices that one would not make oneself (and that it’s none of your business.)
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DAILY PHOTO: Ton Sai Bay
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“From China” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
I thought:
The moon,
Shining upon the many steps of the palace before me,
Shines also upon the chequered rice-fields
Of my native land.
And my tears fell
Like white rice grains
At my feet.
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