PROMPT: Tagline

Daily writing prompt
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

“A life mostly sunny with a chance of hail.”

ALT: “In my mind, no one can hear me scream… but somehow they know when my fly is down.”

DAILY PHOTO: Amboseli Landscapes

Out of Joint [Blank Verse Sonnet]

My days are out of joint and shuffled up,
 and memories are pictures cast upon
  the floor, and rummaged through 'til chaos reigns, 
 and I pick random recollections out
  of all the events ever to transpire.

They seem no more my life than another's:
 a glance, a glimpse, a blank firing of mind,
 a wicked hope that truth will come to me.

But all I see are monochrome mindscapes
 that could've been wrenched out of another mind,
  or made from AI's collage artistry
 to serve some distant master's deep wish to
  learn what hot-injected time does to a soul,
  and if shuffled scene stacks can make one whole?

PROMPT: Good Life

Daily writing prompt
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?

1.) Good company; 2.) studiousness; 3.) a sense of humor, and 4.) the capacity to let go of that which has no value.

Spiral Ginger [Haiku]

ginger blossom
 looks cleaner before
  the rain.

DAILY PHOTO: Glass House, Lalbagh Botanical Garden

Taken on June 10, 2023 in Lalbagh Botanical Garden

Big Red Bug [Haiku]

the big red bug
 attracts attention 
  it doesn’t want.

Mimicry [Haiku]

dead roots:
sinuous as a river,
luxuriant as hair.

DAILY PHOTO: Lalbagh Lake (Kanakanapalya Lake)

Taken on June 10, 2023 at Lalbagh Botanical Gardens