The reclining Buddha oversees
the diligent seated Buddha.
Is this an analogy of the mind,
or just a monk's proclivity
toward a superabundance
of Buddhas?
Superabundance of Buddhas [Free Verse]
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PROMPT: Lottery
Be fearful. Since I don’t play the usual lottery, the only kind I could win is the kind that they use to draft people for fighting alien invaders.
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Angry Skies [Haiku]
orange-fringed
dark clouds drift in blue skies
just before dusk.
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Ducks in a Bunch [Haiku]
Windswept [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Rain Clouds Over Victoria Harbor
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PROMPT: Books
I’ve always gotten bogged down in Joyce’s Ulysses. There are some books you need to be in the right headspace to attack.
I should probably read the Bible and the Koran, speaking of literature I’ve never had the mental energy to take up.
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Iconic [Free Verse]
Everyone gets to be a person,
Few become icons:
What is it to have a lasting
image more well-known
than one's work?
Che Guevara, Bruce Lee,
Heath Ledger's Joker --
Images you can find on
back-alley walls from Lagos
to Prague to Kochi
to Seoul to Santiago
and back again.
Seen day-after-day by people
who never saw Enter the Dragon
or read of the Cuban Revolution,
or saw Nolan's Batman Trilogy,
but they know the faces.
They have thoughts about them
-- and, sometimes, strong feelings --
just like so many people have
thoughts about Alexander the Great
based solely on his name
and a rough impression of history.
What must this be...
blessing or curse ...
if icons had some way to care?
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DAILY PHOTO: Temple Art, Sri Someshwara Swamy Temple
Stray Cat [Senryū]
lean & scratched up:
stray cat stares at a leaf
as if it's ham.
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