Bad Parenting [Common Meter]

I don't mean to cast aspersions,
but it would seem to me
parents shouldn't give a child stabby
things 'fore the age of three.

I don't know whether this household
has a pup or kitty,
but if the kid can spear the floor
the pets ain't look'n pretty.

Saying a babe shouldn't have a spear,
you'll call me "left-wing nut,"
but I don't like dog-on-a-stick:
even if it's a mutt. 

Ghost Backdrop [Haiku]

the stone statue
in the fore feels more real than
the stone wall in fog

DAILY PHOTO: Where Old Commies Go to Die, Budapest

Taken in the summer of 2002 at the Szoborpark [Memento Park] outside Budapest

Apparently, reaching for things was big with the Commies. I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the statues in Budapest’s Szoborpark [Memento Park] (the place where all the old rounded-up Commie artwork was taken to be scrutinized without being honored.) I assume they didn’t often catch what they were reaching for, or they wouldn’t have died out, having their art moved out to low-rent suburbs.

Candle Flicker [Haiku]

in the dim temple,
candlelight flickers,
and bronze moves

DAILY PHOTO: Hungary’s Statue of Liberty, Gellért Hill

Taken in December of 2019 in Budapest

DAILY PHOTO: Crane Fountain, National Orchid Garden

Taken in Singapore at the National Orchid Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens; October 2016

DAILY PHOTO: Buddha Park of Ravangla

Taken in May of 2022 in Ravangla, Sikkim

DAILY PHOTO: Buddha Park, Ravangla

Taken on May 12, 2022 at Tathagata Tsal (Buddha Park) in Ravangla

DAILY PHOTO: Giant Chicken of Lusaka

Taken in May of 2016 in Lusaka