Light Rides Dark [Haiku]

rivers merge;
two cocoa hues seem unmixed,
but light rides the dark.

DAILY PHOTO: Green Baku

Desert Sunset [Haiku]

desert sunset
dips toward silhouetted dunes:
fade to black... then Stars!

DAILY PHOTO: Taoist Temple, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: Colorful Lanterns of Taipei

DAILY PHOTO: Rocky River

DAILY PHOTO: A Few Views of the Malacca River

Crimson Fig [Haiku]

sunbeams pass through 
a reddened Sacred Fig:
one hundred warm hues.

“What Was Her Blondness Like” by Juhász Gyula [w/ Audio]

What was her blondness like? I can't recall,
But I do know the blondness of the fields,
When the wheat fields' grain ripen in the Fall,
And in this blondness her presence I feel.

What were her blue eyes like, I can't recall,
But I do know the blueness of the sky,
September morn, or later in the Fall,
And then again I do feel her nearby.

What was her silky voice like? Can't remember,
But in springtime, when fields begin to sigh,
I feel that Anna's voice is calling, tender,
From a past Spring that's as far as the sky.

Translation by Frank Veszely in: Hungarian Poetry: One Thousand Years. 2023. Manitoba, CA: Friesen Press.

DAILY PHOTO: Rock & Blue Sky

Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Arabia Mountain, GA, USA
Arabia Mountain