Lizard Limerick

An Eastern Garden Lizard prowling its garden
was interrupted by, "Hey, I beg your pardon,
but aren't you big for this park?"
"I'm afraid you've missed the mark.
I don't live here; I own all of these gardens."

DAILY PHOTO: Elephant in the Grass

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Sparrow [Haiku]

a sparrow 
stops in mid-peck
to eyeball me

DAILY PHOTO: Monkey Portraits, Bali

Koi of Many Colors [Haiku]

in a color storm 
of roiling koi, a plain
white fish sticks out

Contemplating Chains [Haiku]

baby monkey
seems to contemplate chains,
or i anthropomorphize?

Dove Raid [Haiku]

two doves dine
on temple offerings,
untroubled by smoke

Monkey Forest [Free Verse]

in the monkey forest,
i think of 
Sun Wukong & Hanuman
as a macaque 
steals my sunglasses

Banana Leaf Snail [Haiku]

a snail hangs
on a banana leaf,
effortlessly

Monkey Sage [Haiku]

the monkey sage sits —
not napping, but looking so,
on the temple wall