PROMPT: Delicious

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?

I couldn’t possibly say, I’ve had so many great foods from all over the world, and my palate is not so refined as to tell great from “the best in the world.” (And I kind of doubt anyone else’s is either.) That said NIC’s “Madagascar Chocolate” ice cream is far-and-away the best chocolate ice cream I’ve ever had, and I would further say possibly the best ice cream and one of the best desserts I’ve ever had.

DAILY PHOTO: Golden

Evening Brown #2 [Haiku]

at dusk,
 the long-still Evening Brown
  flutters off.

Zero [Lyric Poem]

I look in the middle;
 it's the same as the 
  outside.

White space - White space,
 and no place to hide.


A peaceful patch of emptiness -
 I know this much is true:

I could turn it any way I liked,
 and not change the view. 

DAILY PHOTO: Petronas Towers on a Blue-Sky Day

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Evening Brown [Haiku]

this Evening Brown 
is well-named; it’s sluggish
in the morning.

PROMPT: Outfit

Daily writing prompt
If you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be?

T-shirt and sweatpants. Of course, I’d never be able to move back to temperate climes and would have to stay in the tropics. And if it was really one outfit (vs. many copies of the same outfit) I would probably end up going nude after a year-and-a-half or so when said outfit disintegrated into its component threads. So, I’d then have to join a religion, because holy men seem to be the only ones allowed to go buck naked out in the streets without consequence. This is starting to entail more than superficial change.

(Of course, I now notice that the prompt doesn’t say one would exclusively wear this one outfit. But then I think the question becomes meaningless because I think most people — except perhaps a few “fashion influencers” and “celebrities” (quote marks are intentional) — do wear a given outfit over and over [I know I do.])

Point is: it has to be comfortable, not restrict my range of motion, not result in me being a sweaty mess all the time, and allow me to blend.

Red Dragonfly [Haiku]

still red dragonfly:
 has the autumn gotten
  too cold for you?

Shy Flowers [Haiku]

shy flowers
 of a cannonball tree:
  a guarded unveiling.

Witch & Skeleton [Free Verse / Senryū]

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1844)
PREMISE:
Princess Takiyasha
 summoned a skeleton to
  kill a samurai.

MORAL?:
"Don't bring swords
 to a giant skeleton-ghost 
  fight!"

CONCLUSION:
Yet, in settled dust,
 the world was less one
  Princess-witch.