DAILY PHOTO: Garden Art, Buak Hat Park
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Flurry [Haiku]
fine powdery snow
fills ground around grass:
frigid Winter day.
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PROMPT: First Computer
All I know is that it was much bigger and less capable than my current computer. But – then again – it wasn’t designed to monopolize and commoditize my attention.
In summary: bigger, slower, less capable, but less sinister.
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DAILY PHOTO: Cheonggyecheon [청계천] Greenery
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Fake Snow,Real Cold [Haiku]
fake snow from
fountain spray in wind;
the cold is real.
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PROMPT: Most Scared
Daily writing prompt
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
A self-administered lobotomy.
Having to watch MELANIA.
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Solo? [Haiku]
solo bird flies
over sprawling waters
with upside down mate.
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DAILY PHOTO: Ghanta Ghar, Lucknow
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Gateless [Lyric]
![Photograph of a gate at Kothi Gulistan-i-Eram [कोठी गुलिस्तान-ए-इरम] in Lucknow, Madhya Pradesh, India.](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img_7619.jpg)
A Wall -- one may love or hate.
But picture one without a gate.
It is our ever-present fate
to need to see from either side.
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Soul Deaf [Lyric Poem]
As I've traveled around the globe,
I've felt the music from some souls --
Those who exude, in part or whole,
a secret and sacred rhythm.
And when their tunes did call to me
I felt a yearning to be free
to dance and sing, if out of key,
yet ever so resonantly.
Who could have known that I'd go deaf.
With ear to ground, nothing was left.
It felt like a horrible theft
from all (and yet received by none.)
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