PROMPT: Tattoo

Daily writing prompt
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
I would not like a tattoo. 
I would not like one - old or new.
I wouldn't like one in a Zoo.
I wouldn't like one in a canoe.
I would not like one,
Ham though I am,
I would not like any body-spam.

Chasing Grandeur [Free Verse]

Photograph of mountain looming over the city, taken at Sapa, Vietnam.
I saw the mountaintop, 
but by the time I climbed
the mountain,
I was in the clouds and
could not see back to
where I'd been.

God’s Eye [Senryū]

Photograph of God's Eye Mountain in the Cao Bang Province of Vietnam.
hiked halfway around
the God's Eye Mountain before
its name made sense.

DAILY PHOTO: Uttari Betta

Photograph taken at Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India on a cloudy monsoon season day.
Photograph taken atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India with the farmland far below in the background.
Photograph of precariously positioned rocks atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph of a tree on the granite hill named Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.
roots grow down
through stony ground -- still,
Spring brings deep green.

PROMPT: One Word

Daily writing prompt
What is one word that describes you?

Ornery.

Troubled Bridge [Free Verse]

Photograph of a railway bridge over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Iron skeleton
spans the water.

Weeds sprout from ties,
rust eats its way under
flaking paint & over
rivet heads.

I remember the whistle's blow,
a long, long time ago.

DAILY PHOTO: River to Nowhere

Image

Photograph of the Chattahoochee River taken from a bridge such that it looks like the river just comes to an end.

Under a Thousand Bridges [Free Verse]

Photograph of an Interstate highway bridge over the Chattahoochee River at Paces Mill Park.
When you've gone under
a thousand bridges,
and never come across
a Troll...

You have to wonder
whether the Troll is you.

Bright Autumn [Free Verse]

Photograph of a cemetery on a beautiful day in the Fall, taken in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I want a bright Autumn --
brisk & clear.

I want a colorful Fall,
not one in which cold gray
blanches all brilliant shades.

I want a windy Autumn:
full of movement that
swirls & lifts anything
that's light enough.

I want an Autumn that
draws people outside,
not one that pens them.

I don't mind a bite of cold
as long as I can see white
clouds float through blue skies.