Sunflower [Haiku]

infinite shades
of yellow-orange
in each petal

False Blossom [Haiku]

a false blossom,
 that crawls with wasps, hangs
  from a bare branch

DAILY PHOTO: Flowers in the City, Bratislava & Budapest

Faux-Autumn [Haiku]

two-season tropics:
rain-slick yellow leaves
fib that it's autumn

Gold & Ripe [Haiku]

ripe grain turns gold,
the year has matured like a
person going gray

Lusaka Limerick

There was a gambling man of Lusaka
who was always running low on Kwacha.
That's the money, you see,
and despite ardent pleas
when you're a gambler no one will spot 'cha.

DAILY PHOTO: Water Lily

Eruption [Free Verse]

It's such a peaceful cone,
 but I think of Krakatoa.

How much patience
 can a volcano have?

It's got just the two speeds:
 static & exploding.

A human, given those choices,
 would choose to spend its time
  in explosion. 

The calm of perfect stillness
 could last only so long
  before it made one itch
   and scream. 

Someday, it will blow its
 beautifully symmetric top,
  leaving a jagged rim,
   and smoking like a 
    postcoital movie character.

Hitler Limerick

There once was a dictator named Hitler.
He was vegetarian and wasn't a tippler.
The moral seems clear:
eat meat & drink beer.
You'll still be much better than Hitler!

DAILY PHOTO: Precarious Rocks, Orvakallu Rock Garden