Snail Stealth [Haiku]

snail on a stone wall
remains still for hours on end;
on my next pass, gone

Abbey Moon [Haiku]

Kirkstall Abbey by Moonlight; Walter Linsley Meegan
(1899)
moonlight dances
upon the gliding waters,
before stout ruins

Lightning Strike [Haiku]

Oak Fractured by Lightning; Maxim Vorobiev (1824)
shapeless darkness
erupts in blinding form
for an instant

Winter Landscape [Haiku]

Winter Landscape; Sesshū Tōyō (1470)
snowy mountains
stand above a trickling stream,
too cold to drip

Gothic Church Ruins [Haiku]

Gothic Church Ruins; Carl Blechen (1826)
gothic cathedral:
vault crumbled, floors moss green;
nature reclaims

Winter Moonlight [Haiku]

At the Park Gate; John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878)
silver moonlight
glints off the mid-winter thaw --
shining coldly

After the Quake [Haiku]

post-quake scaffolds,
on the ancient temples,
teach impermanence

Lump of Color [Haiku]

drab winter forest.
all is in earth tones,
but one orange lump