Crow Cabal [Haiku]

three crows circled up.
their conversational look
makes me nervous.

furu ike ya [Old Pond] by Matsuo Bashō

old pond,
 a frog jumps:
  "plop-splash!"

Original: 古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音; Romanized: furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

Vanishing [Haiku]

crossing a clearing,
a deer disappears before
eyes can lock on it.

Octopus [Free Verse]

Eight arms
seeking eight
different states
of being.

Winding sinuously
toward eight
different ends.

Wrapping opposing
limbs around
antipodal objectives,
it risks tearing
itself in twain…

but knows better.

Fish Drift [Free Verse]

With lazy mazy motion
  the fish slips through
   its watery world.

With no apparent purpose
  but to trace out a route
   through dreamland.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Sundarbans

Spring Wildflowers [Haiku]

Spring wildflowers
 cluster among the rocks; 
  sheep bells clang nearby.

Bee-Eater [Senryū]

bee-eater sits still --
 not searching, not flitting:
  worried of bee's plight?

Mangrove Kong [Haiku]

a young monkey
 king kongs through a forest
  of aerial roots. 

DAILY PHOTO: Sunderbans Landscapes