DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi

Crimson Fig [Haiku]

sunbeams pass through 
a reddened Sacred Fig:
one hundred warm hues.

Forgotten Mountains [Haiku]

socked in for weeks:
clouds dissipate to reveal
forgotten mountains.

“Lethe” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]

Only the Blessed of Lethe's dews
May stoop to drink. And yet,
Were their Elysium mine to lose,
Could I, sans all repining, choose
Life's sorrows to forget?

Slow Fire [Lyric Poem]

Explosion in slow motion
Rocks the boats that line the ocean:
Swaying, swaying, they swing to and fro!
Metronomic masts set to tempo, s l o w.

DAILY PHOTO: Sevan Lake, Armenia

Let it Float [Lyric Poem]

Sans fear of dying,
The angst of trying
Is felt and left
To float.

PROMPT: For a Day

Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

A Buddha / Bodhisattva (if there’s one about these days.) Why? To feel how his (or her) subjective experience compares to my own.

“The Bustle in a House” (1108) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted opon Earth --

The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity --

PROMPT: DIY Project

Daily writing prompt
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

Switching out a toilet. There’s more to doing it right than it might seem, and you’ve got to get it right the first time or start all over.

Though the most frustrating project was probably wallpapering. While not a hard job, the art of it eluded me.