A breath of air when I’m suffocating.
A drink of water when I’m thirsty.
A bit of bread when I’m hungry.
Sleep when I’m weary.
Company when I’m lonely.
PROMPT: 5 Everyday Things
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Tag Archives: water
Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,
carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.
From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.
As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.
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River Boulders [Haiku]
boulder-strewn gorge:
what ancient waters could move
what now can't be budged?
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Under the Bridge [Haiku]
under the bridge
rain's chaos doesn't vanish:
ripples spread; drips plop.
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PROMPT: Couldn’t Live Without
Digestible non-toxic protein, digestible non-toxic fats, and digestible non-toxic carbohydrates.
Also, water and air, but they are non-commoditized (to a large extent, anyhow.)
Also, certain vitamins and minerals, but they would be subsumed in a good mix of the aforementioned three.
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Trickling Creek [Haiku]
creek that trickles
through a stark winterscape —
days from riverhood.
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Reflection [Haiku]
statue gazes down
as if viewing the painting
by trees on water
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Winter Woods [Haiku]
PROMPT: Drink
Water. Far and away. Nothing else comes close by volume consumed.
Unless this is one of those instances where “drink” is code for alcoholic beverage — in which case the answer is pilsner or gin, as the mood strikes.
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Solo? [Haiku]
solo bird flies
over sprawling waters
with upside down mate.
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