DAILY PHOTO: Tuk-tuks & Temple, Goa
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Water Landing [Haiku]
Prowling Egret [Haiku]
summer: at dawn,
in liquid metal waters,
an egret prowls.
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Over the River [Haiku]
from the bank, i watch the river flow, awed by what it's known
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DAILY PHOTO: Hungarian Parliament & a Boat on the Danube
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Food for Thought [Voltaire & Smartphones]
When Voltaire said:
“Once a nation begins to think, it is impossible to stop it.”
I don’t think he’d anticipated smartphones.
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Pushkin Limerick
The poet Alexander Pushkin challenged twenty-one duels with no win. But just that one loss, put him under a cross. Perhaps, he'd have lived if his skin weren't so thin.
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DAILY PHOTO: Grassy Forest in Autumnal Hungary
Silence [Blank Verse]
This cave is too quiet -- a squeak, a drip, wing snap. But mostly silence & hushed sounds without meanings. Too quiet for my mind. Too quiet for our times.
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Poetic Absorption [Free Verse]
Read at the speed
of absorption,
(not consumption.)
Sit with the ephemera
that boils off upon
each read.
It will be different
the next time.
Don't memorize.
That hammers it into
some dark, heavy pit
that it was never meant to be --
a thing that sinks in water
and plummets from the air.
Hammering cleaves its wings,
and it becomes hopeless in the flow --
staggering like a deranged drunk
in the dark.
When you read it,
only read it.
Don't anticipate.
Be surprised.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 