Long Live Bonsai [Senryū]

Photograph of a bonsai tree taken on the grounds of a Hanoi Temple.
the bonsai tree
isn't a BANZAI! tree,
yet looks 10,000.

NOTE: “Bonsai” [盆栽] means “potted plant.” “Banzai” [万歳] means “10,000 years,” (in the manner of “long live the king.”)

A Sun Within [Haiku]

Photograph of purple and yellow water lilies taken in Hanoi, Vietnam.
purple lilies
open to reveal
a Sun within.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Pasture

Photograph taken in the countryside near Sapa, Vietnam.
Photograph taken outside Sapa, Vietnam on the QL4D highway on the road to Lao Cai.

Mountain Mist [Haiku]

hot summer day,
sitting downwind of cascade:
misted by spatter.

PROMPT: Tattoo

Daily writing prompt
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
I would not like a tattoo. 
I would not like one - old or new.
I wouldn't like one in a Zoo.
I wouldn't like one in a canoe.
I would not like one,
Ham though I am,
I would not like any body-spam.

Chasing Grandeur [Free Verse]

Photograph of mountain looming over the city, taken at Sapa, Vietnam.
I saw the mountaintop, 
but by the time I climbed
the mountain,
I was in the clouds and
could not see back to
where I'd been.

God’s Eye [Senryū]

Photograph of God's Eye Mountain in the Cao Bang Province of Vietnam.
hiked halfway around
the God's Eye Mountain before
its name made sense.

DAILY PHOTO: Uttari Betta

Photograph taken at Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India on a cloudy monsoon season day.
Photograph taken atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India with the farmland far below in the background.
Photograph of precariously positioned rocks atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph of a tree on the granite hill named Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.
roots grow down
through stony ground -- still,
Spring brings deep green.

PROMPT: One Word

Daily writing prompt
What is one word that describes you?

Ornery.