PROMPT: Beach or Mountains

Daily writing prompt
Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?

To me, that is much like asking whether I prefer a hammer or a Phillips head screwdriver. They are different tools for different purposes. Good luck if you love your ballpeen hammer so much that it’s the only tool for you but your problem of the moment is a deeply embedded wood screw.

Bald Mountain [Haiku]

Spring rains stalk up
behind a bald mountain;
a brown flood flows.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Near Sóc Hà

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DAILY PHOTO: Dragon’s Jaw

DAILY PHOTO: God’s Eye Mountain, Cao Bằng

Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]

clouds fill the valley:
a gauzy avalanche
in slow motion.

Sun Tinged [Haiku]

mountain snow:
tinged orange
by sunrise.

Mountain Crumbles [Haiku]

once a mountain,
now just boulders; someday
not a hill will remain.

White on White [Haiku]

angular granite:
softened by snowfall,
erased by cloud.

“Fable” by Ralph Waldo Emerson [w/ Audio]

The mountain and the squirrel  
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig.’
Bun replied,
‘You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.’