Winter Woods [Haiku]

bare branches,
in the Winter forest,
look frost-covered.

DAILY PHOTO: Roswell Mill

DAILY PHOTO: Vickery Creek Waterfall

Ripples [Haiku]

through a window:
first ripples of a Spring rain
seen on a pond.

DAILY PHOTO: Luang Namtha Farm

Passing Buddha [Lyric Poem]

The train is speeding down the line.
Gold Buddha glints in the sunshine.
Jarring is the train whistle’s whine,
we plunge into a dark tunnel.

Green Hills [Lyric Poem]

So many hills I have seen
That grow so soft and thick and green.
Though jagged rocks sit down below
The grass and shrubs and weeds that grow
Through cracks and gaps, in mud patches --
Sprawling wide from tight-knit batches
That stone cannot constrain or kill.

DAILY PHOTO: A View from Fo Guang Shan with Shrubbery

Rushed [Haiku]

through the Autumn,
one tree holds leaves longer,
then drops them faster.

Rain Splotch[Haiku]

chilly winter day,
prismatic splotch in sky—
no bow, no ring.