stone monolith
rises above the jungle
like a fortress.
Stone Monolith [Haiku]
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“Bantams in Pine-Woods” by Wallace Stevens [w/ Audio]
Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan
Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
Damned universal cock, as if the sun
Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.
Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your world is you. I am my world.
You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!
Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,
Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,
And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.
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PROMPT: Plan
Haphazardly with a side of slapdashery.
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Claustrophobic [Haiku]
carpenter bee
crawls into clock vine bloom;
freefalls into flight.
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Sky Fire [Haiku]
sunset flames,
glowing like hot coals;
cools to darkness.
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DAILY PHOTO: Tricycle Transport in Vietnam
Sonnet 53 by William Shakespeare [w/ Audio]
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new.
Speak of the spring and foison of the year:
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessèd shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
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PROMPT: Emergency Preparedness
1.) Run like hell.
2.) Dive headlong (with perfect timing as the blast begins.)
3.) Sigh with relief as I look back at the roiling fireball.
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Crown Flower [Haiku]
crown flower buds
begin to split, but only one
takes the first peek.
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Mountain Crumbles [Haiku]
once a mountain,
now just boulders; someday
not a hill will remain.
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