DAILY PHOTO: Reputedly Haunted School in Kurseong

Sky Fire [Haiku]

orange skies blaze, 
briefly but vibrantly,
people watch the fade.

“The Lilly” by William Blake [w/ Audio]

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble Sheep a threat’ning horn;
While the Lilly white shall in Love delight,
Nor a thorn, nor a threat, stain her beauty bright.

DAILY PHOTO: Immaculate Conception Church of Panjim

Patience [Haiku]

perched egret
clears a window in pond scum,
and waits — statue-like!

Shophouse Row [Senryū]

shophouse row
infinity of portals:
private, but not too...

Picture Horse [Lyric Poem]

Stacks and stacks
of wooden plaques:
Prayers on front,
Art on the back.

Each a wish
and a dream?
More an expression,
or so it seems.

Whatever prayer
may be writ,
There’s always
something
more to it.

A need to show
one’s unique soul:
To tell the world
that one is whole.

A life reduced
to a shingle:
Multitudes,
to a single.

Inside View [Senryū]

snail stretches
to view the beautiful house -
too close to see.

DAILY PHOTO: Budapest Opera House, Inside & Out

Flower Mind [Free Verse]

Morning Glories
don’t feel slighted
because they bloomed
in the shadow of
Mexican Sunflowers…

Though the humans
who otherwise might
stop to admire them
can now not be
bothered to notice them.