Berry Game Theory [Haiku]

summer berries:
 to pick or let ripen?
  what will birds do?

DAILY PHOTO: From High Ground

Personal Jesus [Senryū]

a plump heron
walks on lily pads: my own
Personal Jesus.

Passiflora [Free Verse]

Passiflora looks like
 space-age technology.

it seems like it should
  pick up signals from
  the far reaches of space...

but I doubt it does.

Honey Bee [Haiku]

honey bee at work
 on flowers still dripping 
   from Spring showers.

Beach Sleep [Sonnet]

The evening winds are blowing out to sea,
     and carry away all the woes of day.
 You see the sway up in the waving trees
      that give a sendoff to what's blown away.

The sea grows dark, and darkness envelops.
     And sandy scents and fishy scents blossom.
 And sounds of crashing waves seem to swell up,
      as vision decides it will play possum.

Then stars - in veins - do shimmer between clouds,
     the clouds one cannot see but can induce.
 Now free from both the light and noise of crowds,
      and all the human chaos and abuse.

Midst drifting shapes my mind is lulled to peace,
 then all that is - both sea and wind - does cease...

Snail Wu Wei [Haiku]

a snail dangles,
 on a leaf, in its house,
   effortlessly.

Wasps [Haiku]

a hive of wasps,
each one frenetic:
do they never rest?