DAILY PHOTO: Temple, Church, & Goats in Halasuru

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PROMPT: Harmony

What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?

The need for the world to be a certain sort of way.

It’s the only thing I can think of that letting go of would contribute to increased harmony.

DAILY PHOTO: Hill Stairway

Post Crow [Haiku]

crow on a post,
on rocky desolate ground;
waves lap ashore.

“Second Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay [w/ Audio]

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

The Slow Flow [Haiku]

teal mountain stream
flows past rock's fluid striations,
proof flow can be slow.

DAILY PHOTO: Tunnel of Nine Turns

Jungle [Common Meter]

They say jungles are chaotic.
I find them as silent
As the world that is aquatic...
Though no less violent.

“An Akan Lullaby” by Anonymous [w/ Audio]

Someone would like to have you for her child
but you are mine.
Someone would like to rear you on a costly mat
but you are mine.
Someone would like to place you on a camel blanket
but you are mine.
I have you to rear on a torn old mat.
Someone would like to have you as her child
but you are mine.

NOTE: I have no specific author or translator information for this poem. (The former may not be surprising as it may be lost to history.) At any rate, my source is Classic Poems to Read Aloud, an anthology selected by James Berry (1995; Kingfisher Publications,) and it was titled “Lullaby.” That book cites a Cambridge University Press volume entitled African Poetry, edited by Ulli Beier, as its source.

The Right Angle [Haiku]

overgrown: ruins
hidden from the side are
revealed from above.