Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

a single lily 
 stands out in a pond of pads:
  bright to browned.

sprawling tree, 
 laid asunder by its own weight:
  a crack plus time

one last leaf,
 its longanimity great,
  falls -- unseen.

solitary fish
 darts about at lake's edge:
  taunting fates & fishers.

after the harvest,
 farmland - dry & ignitable:
  distant smoke.

a lovely voice,
 heard down the valley, grows
  louder & louder.

horses graze upon
 dandelions and green grass,
  under snowy heights.

blooms & berries
 color the scrublands
  as summer peaks.

fallen leaves skitter
 as grass sprouts in twined roots:
  all seasons at once.

askew tombstones
 under a yawning tree:
  a crow on its branch.