DAILY PHOTO: Evening at Padang Bai

Taken on Bali in December of 2022.

Black Sand Bay [Haiku]

the black sand bay
under rainy gray clouds:
boats rock anxiously

DAILY PHOTO: Sundown at Mt. Agung, Amed

Taken in Amed on December 30, 2022

The Great Roundness [Free Verse]

As in Hokusai’s Great Wave,
I watch waves roll over,
before a volcanic cone.

Though these waves are
small & close,
they are perfectly rounded.

And though the distant volcano
looms large over the shore waves,
it has perfect symmetry.

I feel the roundness
&
simultaneous devastating power
of both elements at once.

Rain & Waves [Tanka]

waves crashing
on a rain-darkened shore
lull me to sleep,
as pelted boatmen
tug their boats inland

Traveler Time [Free Verse]

I’m a traveler —
attached only to the place
tethered to my now.

That’s the only place
that exists in any real sense.

The past has no reality
in the present - not really.

It’s a ghost,
a dim and fuzzy figment.

Only thorns of the moment
can prick me.

Past disasters hold no sway,
&
future calamities are acts
of imagination.

DAILY PHOTO: Rice Terraces, Eastern Bali

Taken on December 29, 2022 in Bali

DAILY PHOTO: Boats & Clouds, Nusa Dua

Taken in December of 2022; Nusa Dua, Bali

DAILY PHOTO: Blue Lagoon Beach, Padang Bai

Taken on December 27, 2022 at Padang Bai

Temple Guardians [Haiku]

the stone monkeys 
at the temple entrance seem
less than inviting