Slant Fall [Haiku]

Autumn breeze 
 and then a lag and then
  leaves fall slantwise.

DAILY PHOTO: Udaipur Wall Art

Lazy Lake [Haiku]

boats glide across 
 the lake, barely faster
  than the sun drops.

PROMPT: Better w/ Age

Daily writing prompt
What do you think gets better with age?

As far as life experiences, I find just about everything gets better with age. It’s probably to do with the dawning realization that most of the shit one has gotten worked up about over the years wasn’t worth it (as well as the realization that one has fewer years ahead than behind and so one had better get on with it in an aware kind of way.) As icing on the cake, I’m virtually certain to be long gone before the oceans boil or the robots rise up and massacre humanity.

If the question is what kind of things get better with age… certainly not french fries.

DAILY PHOTO: Munnar Plantation

Scream [Free Verse]

The Scream (1893); Edvard Munch
brain numb.
 voice dumb.
 
a wicked harmonic
 builds in the core -

tuned to volcanically
 vibrant skies.

flash fires of feeling
 riffle through the body.

the tone dials
 into a whine
 
that bursts into 
 a scream.

The Garden [Haiku]

the well-groomed garden
 holds nature at bay, only
  through constant effort.

DAILY PHOTO: Ha Long Sunrise

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Limerick of Richard Dadd

Titania Sleeping (1857); Richard Dadd
An English painter named Richard Dadd
 went completely stark raving madd.
  He stayed in asylums -
  Broadmoor to Bedlam.
 For stabbing to death his dear old dadd.