Mountain Mimicry [Haibun]

The cloud mimicked a mountain top, its ridge sun fired to bright white by the rising sun, its shadow side in granite gray, being impenetrable to the sun's rays. Mountains that imposing live a thousand miles away, but that cloud took me there. 

the morning sun
lights up a dense cloud
to mimic mountains

Rooted [Tanka]

roots sprawl,
sinuously creeping.
what's it like
to hold so firm
and reach so far?

Temple of Dawn [Tanka]

Temple of Dawn
stands by a river -
brown and wide,
a river both older
and younger than it

Banana Flower [Haiku]

banana flower
glows in the morning sun,
racing in stillness

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds & Sky, Siquijor

Taken in December of 2017 on Siquijor

Wide Open Spaces [Free Verse]

out of my cell 
&
onto the trail

i walk the vast expanse,
the vault of heaven above
&
hills of rolling green
beneath my feet

and clouds barge through
blue skies
like thoughts barge through
my mind -

sluggishly
but
inevitably