Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
amid wildflowers:
city disappears.

PROMPT: Goals

Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

In playing football, I find telling linebackers “no” is not beneficial. Words are strange things, at once infinitely powerful or powerless, depending upon context and will.

Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]

Photograph taken from a tower of the Ananuri Fortress Complex, looking at the Zhinvali Reservoir.
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,

carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.

From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.

As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.

Two Ways to Go [Haiku]

highway parts landscape;
butterflies jink and loiter
as cars speed through.

DAILY PHOTO: Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi

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Photograph of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia taken from the hills across the river.

Nomad [Free Verse]

Photograph taken in the Parsi Temple of Baku, Azerbaijan.
One who doesn't feel 
a lot at home anywhere
Begins to feel a little
at home everywhere.

He sees not strangeness
in strangers --
No more than he sees
in himself.

Any one place is not
greater nor lesser
than anywhere else.

Lands of gold and riches
are as likely devoid of
authenticity - of soul -
as impoverished places
are dripping with it.

PROMPT: Secret Skill

Daily writing prompt
What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Secret?” To quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Gobustan National Park outside Baku, Azerbaiian.
wildflowers bloom
-- sheltered by boulders --
on stony ground.

Daisy Waves [Haiku]

Photographs of Ox-Eye Daisies taken in Baku, Azerbaijian.
ox-eye daisies
ripple in the wind, or
when tousled by hand.

DAILY PHOTO: Blue Sky Day in Yerevan

Photograph taken in the Yerevan 2750th Anniversary Park / Vardanians' Park area on a mostly sunny day.
Photograph of the Yerevan Municipality Building taken across Myasnikyan Square.
Photograph taken in Vardanians' Park toward the Prosperous Armenia Party building (tower background), across Myasnikyan Square.