PROMPTED PLAY | A SERIES OF SENRYUS

Meet Betty the Bat
Only true mammal with flight
An intriguing sight

With beauty abound
As night’s curtain hits the ground
Singing clicks her sound

Every living thing
Balances nature’s swing
Question what we bring?

Human voices mix
A misguided source of blame
Media playing tricks

Leaves me wondering
Does anyone know the truth?
Minus doubt’s shadow

Science is never static, never stagnant, never content with the boundary it has reached. It is always dynamic, always breaking bounds…Science… abhors a limitation — L.P. Jacks

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PROMPTED PLAY | TANKA

Place to rest your head
Put your feet up and just be
Its somewhere special
By yourself or with others
A home is more than a house

I was starting to feel a bit weird getting compliments from people about my drawings — “I’m a fraud!” I kept saying to myself.

All I’m doing is copying a source photo (usually my own photo) and changing a few things around.

Which led to yesterday’s big outpour from cleaning off some old filters!!

Soooo — I thought, let’s make it really clear that I am very much learning and following the flow…

PROMPTED PLAY | SENRYU

Having kids around

Is a reminder to live

In each “now” moment

Drawing is something I loved doing as a kid.

It came with a big whack of “I am not good enough” as I got older.

I embodied the “problem” in Pablo’s quote — hook, line and sinker!!

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up — Pablo Picasso

I sat next to a mate in high school art class. She draws solely from her imagination. The things she can get her pencil to do are mesmerising. …