DAILY PHOTO: Gundamagere Lake from Makalidurga Hill

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DAILY PHOTO: Makalidurga Cliffside

Taken on December 3, 2022 in Karnataka, India

I’ve Never Been Lost in the Woods [Sonnet]

I've never been lost in the woods,
though I've been lost so many times.
I've been lost in my neighborhood,
and I've been lost within my mind. 

You say the trees look all the same.
I say that's some speciesist shit.
No. I don't know the trees by name,
but that doesn't matter a whit.

I've never been lost in the woods:
lost means wishing to be elsewhere.
Lost is all about "woulds" and "coulds."
But I'm not lost if I don't care:

don't care I don't know this exact spot,
'cause I know precisely where I'm not!

Green Forest [Haiku]

thin canopy woods.
light hits the grassy ground
and it glows green

DAILY PHOTO: Forest in Northern Hungary

Taken in October of 2022

Deceptive Landscape [Senryū]

soft, round hills
under cottony clouds, yet
the hike is so hard

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain w/ Clouds Above & Below

Taken on the trail to Goechala in Sikkim in May of 2022

Steps [Haiku]

at the bottom,
i feel my legs work;
at the top, i see

Nine Miles Deep [Free Verse]

nine miles down
an old dirt road 
that runs the valley,

the road disappearing
before the pass,

fading into a footpath,
and then into a vague notion

in a rare turn of events,
i can see - but not hear -
the whitewater 
that's running back toward 
from whence i came,
and then on to a sea
in some distant country

i sit on a grassy hilltop,
feeling i'm far enough 
down the road 
to be at peace

DAILY PHOTO: Green Hill Under Monsoon Skies

Taken in October of 2020 at Devaramane Betta