DAILY PHOTO: Eastern Taiwan in Winter

Old Wasp Nest [Haiku]

old wasp nest:
looks like the whole hive
hulked its way out.

Jolt [Senryū]

on a narrow ridge,
covered with fine dust,
my foot slips. I’m awake!

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from atop Hayashi Department Store, Tainan

The Brave One [Haiku]

one hundred birds
startle at my presence;
one eyeballs me.

“Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning [w/ Audio]

I
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.

II
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

Vanishing [Haiku]

a blossom falls
into the water:
i look. it’s gone.

Crows in a Row [Haiku]

curb crows
stand in a row.
what’s the sky say?

“Song of More Sugar” by Liu Guo [w/ Audio]

Reeds cover the tiny island.
Shallow streams cut through the cold sand.

I see the Southern Tower for
The first time in two decades.

How many days since I moored
Under this willow tree?
Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here.

On the rocks of Yellow Crane,
Do my friends still reside?

This old place has many new sorrows.

If I bought wine and we cast off together,
Could we be young again?