Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

opera singers
 sing a duet on the trail:
 acoustics quest?

where drunken immortals
 are role models, one must
 expect the odd dragon.

a butterfly flits
 over blooms: a connoisseur
 not deigning to land.

a muscular tree
 poses with limbs outstretched;
  shrubs are unimpressed.

eyeing the mountain
 like it’s defeated you once,
  and may again.

the grass sways,
 while skyscrapers stand stiffly:
  so impressive, the grass!

the flowers hide
 in tall grass & sedges,
  but bees still find them.

a snake crawls 
 down out of a tree…
  i have questions.

the stream carries sand,
 dropping it in a broad pool,
  clueless of its work.

a bee-eater lands
 on a barbed wire fence
  for a cozy rest.