What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
Swimming, at the moment.
PROMPT: Hobby or pastime
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Tag Archives: Movement
Great Mormon [Haiku]
![Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img_0372.jpg)
Great Mormon
flaps its wings spastically,
yet hovers in place.
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PROMPT: Relax
Tai Chi, Chai Tea, the usual suspects.
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PROMPT: Health and Well-Being
Daily writing prompt
What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
Move my body. Eat my veggies. Feel gratitude regularly. Do not stick my hand down the garbage disposal. Surrender to my ignorance.
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Dancing Daisies [Haiku]
bright flowers
dance in a breeze,
beside the castle wall.
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PROMPT: One Simple Thing
Daily writing prompt
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
A walk in the park. Most things in life are no walk in the park, but you can’t say that about a walk in the park.
[This message brought to you by WALK IN THE PARK.]
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Something Moves [Haiku]
something moves
through the tall grass --
mystery rump & ears.
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Orbit [Haiku]
butterflies orbit
in helter-skelter arcs,
but never bump.
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Battle Royale [Senryū]
insects unseen:
chaotic bird movement, a
bird battle royale?
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PROMPT: Everyday Things
My wife, movement, new & interesting ideas, play, and epiphanies.
[I’m presuming we’re using the word “thing” in the broadest possible sense — as a stand in for any noun. If it is meant in the narrower common usage of trinkets, gewgaws, baubles, and tchotchkes, then I’ve got nothing.]
Tiger Riding for Beginners 