DAILY PHOTO: Kingfisher on a Riverbank

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Dark River [Lyric Poem]

flow on, Dark River;
  slip through the night.

midnight's thick clouds
  block the moonlight.

your voice drowned out
  by insect chirr.

a Huck Finn raft
  drifts by at a blur:

the rafters unseen;
  their secret stays hush...

but for those red eyes
  in the underbrush.

Solid Ground [Free Verse]

sole to cold earth:

it's the only way i know
 the limits of this world.

feet pressing into this globe
 are my tether to reality.

any other way, and the world
  could stretch forever.

the feel of my weight,
 popping to heel or ball:
  pronating & supinating,
  rolling & reaching,
   in dance or destruction --

 feet leaving the cold earth
  always reorient to the planet.

Cool Blue [Haiku]

cloudless sky.
 fading shades of blue:
  cool mountain summer.

Slow World [Haiku]

clouds drift 
over a granite dome,
and time slows.

Down the Valley [Haiku]

the sun rises
down the valley:
peeking cautiously.

DAILY PHOTO: Rhododendron & Mountain

Gull Prowl [Haiku]

gull on the prowl:
 wings move erratically,
  head methodically.

Summer Storms [Haiku]

Summer beach day;
 swollen clouds slog nearer:
  mass exodus.