PROMPT: 3 Favorite Meals

Daily writing prompt
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. (Chronologically, not in order of preference.)

Paper masala dosa for breakfast; Thai red curry for lunch; mixed fruit for dinner.

Perfect Fruit [Senryū]

perfect fruit
still hangs on the tree:
surviving temptation.

Cherry [Haiku]

vibrant red orbs
grow in dense clusters --
undisturbed, for now!

PROMPT: Fruits

Daily writing prompt
List your top 5 favorite fruits.

As my personal philosophy precludes having stable favorites, I’ll go with the fruits I had at breakfast (in no particular order): Mango, Banana, Leechee, Watermelon, and Cantaloupe.

Ripe [Haiku]

the fruit ripens 
in the temple garden;
a kumquat drops.

Cherry [Kyōka]

some are made speechless
by falling cherry blossoms,
but -- for others --
speechlessness comes from
a mouthful of the fruits.

Berry Game Theory [Haiku]

summer berries:
 to pick or let ripen?
  what will birds do?

PROMPT: Fruits

List your top 5 favorite fruits.

5.) Rambutan

4.) Blueberry

3.) Honeydew Melon

2.) Yelakki Banana

1.) Mango

Transcendent Mango [Haiku]

the season is here,
 and everyone seeks the
  transcendent mango.

Fruit Beauty [Common Meter]

The flawless deep green melon rind
houses a pink, bland flesh.
The rind - pitted, yellowed, lumpy -
hides fruit: red, sweet, & fresh.