NaPoWriMon ‘24 (Day 2) — Haiku

Our thoughts lead us on … a wild goose chase?

Plea for a manifesto to change …

We are in a viscous cycle leading us to a future where global conglomerates, focussed purely on profit, pay puppet governments to turn a blind-eye to the rape of the planetary resources and fund people —not to do productive work— but to spend their assigned income consuming the conglomerates’ products and services.

Railroaded

Sitting in the garden. I’m surrounded not by the usual sound of nature; thrush, robins and blackbird song. No today it is the sound of chain saw and shredder as contractors clear the green corridor that was. They need to shore-up the railroad’s cutting.

w3-prompt-55-acrostic-meditation

In response to the prompt to write an acrostic —I had to look it up too— verse based on one of these words: Discipline; Enthusiasm; Meditation; Tumult; Trouble.

No need to read …

When I’m down —working through life’s stuff—I need to write; even though what I write may make no sense, still the stream needs to flow to paper. As electricity to earth. This is such a piece. I don’t expect it to be read. Readers may move along now.

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Dana is the Sanskrit word for generosity. The Dana bowl was held-out by itinerant monks seeking alms