Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

counting ears
 to learn how many cats,
  but how deep 's the pile?

a troop of langurs:
 five monkeys doing five things
  as one family.

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

Kathmandu backstreet:
 at alley's end, grins Joker --
  global chaos face.

three crows circled up.
 their conversational look
  makes me nervous.

bee-eater sits still --
 not searching, not flitting:
  worried of bee's plight?

at mangrove’s edge:
 a croc, mouth agape.
  lazy hunter?

flowers are rock stars:
 standing tall & proud before 
  the swaying grass.

behind the leaf, 
 a spider hides like a fat
  kid behind a pole.

the treetop leaves
 that catch early & late sun
  are the first to fall.