DAILY PHOTO: Pakka Pul, Lucknow

“Balls” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]

Throw the blue ball above the little twigs of the tree-tops,
And cast the yellow ball straight at the buzzing stars.

All our life is a flinging of colored balls
to impossible distances.
And in the end what have we?
A tired arm -- a tip-tilted nose.

Ah! Well! Give me the purple one.
Wouldn't it be a fine thing if I could make it stick
On top of the Methodist steeple?

Quiet [Haiku]

pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.

DAILY PHOTO: Night Parade

Wetland [Haiku]

narrow channel,
waving reeds on each side,
boat glides blindly through.

Orbits [Haiku]

spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.

DAILY PHOTO: A Green & Stony Hill, Mussoorie

Jacaranda [Haiku]

Jacarandas bloom:
thousands of miles from home,
but no less purple.

Gust [Haiku]

gusting Spring winds:
can the hunkered crow
take to flight?