startled squirrel drops
its nut; so sad for it, but
we all get a tree.
Acorn [Senryū]
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PROMPT: Clutter
My brain.
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Mobile Home [Common Meter]
Turtle exits its hiding place
beneath a rotten log.
Its shell snags on that old, dead wood
he drags the log along.
Does he know that he's double-shelled?
He seems so unaware.
When he breaks free, he gains no speed --
just crawls on like he don't care.
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Stumped [Free Verse]
A stump in the forest
is like a gap in a
wedding party photo
where they photoshopped
out a renegade relative,
but forgot to erase
the person's loafers.
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The Industrial Disease [Lyric Poem]
I heard the last gasp and wheeze
of Industry's fatal disease.
Why would we need any workers?
We don't need factories!
We'll grow it all from nanobots
in a closet where you please.
There'll be a 3-D printer, printing
printers endlessly.
You won't hear another mention
of Industrial Disease.
The question is not how or where
to make it, that'll be a breeze.
The question on economist's minds...
that strains their expertise.
Is how will slobs who have no jobs
pay for their indices?
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DAILY PHOTO: The Randall Welcome Center, University of Alabama
PROMPT: Favorite Animal
For what purpose? I like elephants but I wouldn’t invite one to a dinner party.
I like pigs as food, but I wouldn’t play basketball with one. I like snakes, but I wouldn’t take one on an all-expenses paid trip to Cozumel. I like crickets, but I wouldn’t ask one to pull a plow.
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DAILY PHOTO: Colorful New Orleans
River Fog [Haiku]
Winter mornings:
fog forms on the river --
moments numbered.
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PROMPT: Communicate Online
Like everyone, with a great deal less civility.
Also, with the recognition that no one is trapped by societal convention, so one must be concise, or no one will take it in.
Also, I end sentences with prepositions more.
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