Category Archives: nature

Solo? [Haiku]

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Photograph of an egret flying over the Gomti River in Lucknow, Madhya Pradesh, India.
solo bird flies
 over sprawling waters
  with upside down mate.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

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Photograph of Vang Vieng, Laos at sundown.
pale orange skies
 over dark silhouetted
  shadowlands.

Angry Skies [Haiku]

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Taken in Luang Namtha in Northern Laos, near the border with China. 
orange-fringed
 dark clouds drift in blue skies
  just before dusk.

Ducks in a Bunch [Haiku]

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Waterfowl on Rudrasagar Lake in Melaghar, India.
clustered armada
 of ducks drift across
  open water.

Glazed Acorn [Haiku]

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Winter storm
 ices over acorns:
  branches hang low.

DAILY PHOTO: Macaque Family

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Family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Hill in Karnataka, India.
Baby macaque monkey on the rocks atop of Gudibande Hill.
A family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Fort in the state of Karnataka in India.

Spring Swerve [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken at Jvari Pass in the Republic of Georgia as a rain cloud works up the valley. The previous day, it had snowed. 
Spring can swerve.

White patches,
   holdouts from yesterday's snow, 
      are melted by today's rains. 

Buds no sooner form
   than are encased in ice.

No self-respecting Summer
   day could bring snow.

Winter won't hatch
   a butterfly.

Autumn can't turn
   a red leaf back to green.

But Spring can swerve.

Invaders [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia near Tbilisi Reservoir in Late Spring.
Spring glade:
 small patch of light blue nests
  in a yellow sea.

Redbud [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia in late Spring. The pink flower buds appear to be from a Redbud tree.
dense clusters
 of pink flower buds
  brighten the trail.

Ivy & Stone [Free Verse]

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Taken in the Old City of Baku, Azerbaijan.
There's something relentless
   in an old stone wall...
 But, also, cold and dead.
   One knows it will not stand forever --
       that it will go the way of
       ruins, rubble, stones, and dust --
       but, still, it can outstand any man. 
 Ivy climbs to camouflage the stone's
    cruel deathlessness,
 But then the ivy stands on the wall
    year after year after year...