PROMPT: Million Dollars

Daily writing prompt
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?

THE POOR.

Weeds [Haiku]

summer grasses
wave atop a once mighty fort
that's gone to seed.

Bats [Haiku]

Bats at Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena, (near Gwalior,) Madhya Pradesh, India.
ancient temple:
bats strafe ambulators;
wing flaps puff on bare scalp.

DAILY PHOTO: Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena

Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena, Madhya Pradesh, India (North of Gwalior) Reconstructed Hindu Temples
Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena, Madhya Pradesh, India, (North of Gwalior); Reconstructed Hindu Temples.
Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena, Madhya Pradesh, India (north of Gwalior)

NETHERLANDS LIMERICK

There was a sweet girl from the Netherlands
who worried the hard rains might never end.
When street became moat,
She traded bike for boat.
At canal-surfing she became a veteran.

PROMPT: Guaranteed

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.

Cast a magic spell? Everything I know of in this world comes with no such guarantee — at least anything worth one’s time. It’d be better to spend one’s time learning to thrive under uncertainty.

Eddies in the Stream [Haiku]

clear water glides
over a rocky streambed:
eddies form & fade.

MONGOLIA LIMERICK

There was a young monk from Mongolia
Who loved Buddhism’s peace, but was only a
little bit dismayed
to long for the days –
When Mongols ruled from Okhotsk to Anatolia.

DAILY PHOTO: Cricketers at Maharani Laxmi Bai College

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College students playing cricket on the field in front of Maharani Laxmi Bai Arts and Commerce College in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.

UNITED STATES LIMERICK

There was a philosopher from the USA
Who was always charging into the fray.
He’d take either side --
Go deep or go wide --
So long as said fray didn’t come to gunplay.