Bovine Brothers? [Senryū]

bovine brothers?
 or twins? or maybe I'm just
  seeing double?

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn Fields in South India

Bovine Chiropractors [Common Meter]

A cow is an animal, &
 animals are creatures.
  So, having strong proclivities
    is a cardinal feature.

Calling them "creatures of habit"
 must be for a reason.
  If creatures did not form habits
   the term would lose cohesion.

But I digress, I must admit.
 Let me get to my point.
  You see, a sloping pasture must
   be murder on the joints!

A random beast, who stood this way
 & that, would balance out,
  but standing each day - just one way -
   could cause a hip blowout.

A cow that grazes on a pitch
 must have unequal legs.
  Maybe, all it would take would be
   two tiny pirate pegs.

For wearing pegs on the downslope
 side would align the hips,
  but then on walks down to the barn
   cows would be prone to trips. 

For now, there's just one solution:
 bovine chiropractors!
  Because the cost will be so great,
   I'm seeking benefactors. 

Pumpkin Patch [Haiku]

the pumpkin patch 
has been harvested:
orange orbs galore.

Still-Life w/ Clouds [Haiku]

hay is baled, and
the pasture is empty:
still, but for cloud drift.

DAILY PHOTO: Őrség Farmland

Hidden Path [Haiku]

the path that runs
 through the millet field is
  only seen head-on. 

Farmland, Unchecked [Free Verse]

From a hilltop,
   farmland stretches
    to the horizon:
 
parceled into rectangles
   of brown, beige, and oh 
    so many shades of green.

It must be the tropics,
    for ripe grain to 
     coexist with verdant
      & fallow patches.

So different from the farmland
    of my youth
     where all the rectangles 
      were one of two colors -
      because everyone had to
      pack into the same tight
      growing season. 

DAILY PHOTO: Urban Pastoral

Taken June 17, 2023 near Yelahanka Lake, Bangalore