DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Hualien

DAILY PHOTO: Taipei from the 101

Through the Gate, Gladly [Free Verse]

Gates remain
 long after the walls
    have fallen.

People pass through
 when they could just
    go around.

There's something to
 treading the path
    of ancestors,

Or maybe they just crave
 the claustrophobic
    squeeze.

DAILY PHOTO: Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Taipei

DAILY PHOTO: Formosa Boulevard Metro Station, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: 85 Sky Tower, Kaohsiung

Winter Dragon [Haiku]

cymbals crash &
horns blow, a dragon weaves up-street:
winter festivities!

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ximending

Fierce Creatures [Haiku]

city, nightfall:
the temple’s fierce creatures
turn nightmare shapes.

DAILY PHOTO: Huaxi Street Night Matket, Taipei