DAILY PHOTO: Korean Countryside

Secondary Feeders [Haiku]

after harvest
cows stubble graze, &
egrets hunt in the wake.

Spring Pasture [Haiku]

Spring’s arrival
brings lush, green grass;
livestock keeps it trim.

Chick Wrangling [Senryū]

mama chicken
struts with great confidence
for one wrangling chicks.

Pillbox Bunker [Tanka]

pillbox bunker from
a war a lifetime ago
sits in a field.
what the farmer must think
as he plants around it.

Empty Pasture [Haiku]

in woods' shade, 
cattle sit or stand, &
file barn-ward at dusk.

“Crops” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]

Farmer Giles has cut his rye;
Oh my! Oh my!
Farmer Bates has cut his wheat;
Och, the thieving hares in it!

Farmer Turvey's cut his barley;
Ripe and early, ripe and early.
And where day breaks, rousing not,
Farmer Weary's cut his throat.

DAILY PHOTO: Views from Atop Uttari Betta

Slim Pickings [Haiku]

buffalo grazes
on stalk stubble
after harvest.

Post-Harvest Mars [Haiku]

hazy valley:
stubble fire smoke glows like
a Martian landscape.