White Columns [Haiku]

white columns
rise from a mountain lake:
once mighty pines.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountains at Kaindy Lake

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Mental Scaling [Haiku]

trickling water 
becomes a vast cascade;
grass tufts blur to trees.

DAILY PHOTO: Brown Waters of Mahaweli Ganga

Heron at Dusk [Haiku]

dusky summer eve:
a heron wades in shallows,
blindly fishing.

Orbit [Haiku]

butterflies orbit
in helter-skelter arcs,
but never bump.

Chital [Lyric Poem]

The Chital at the watering hole
Has one single simple goal:
To drink its fill and then to scat
Before being eaten by some big cat.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Sundarbans

Blossom Pair [Haiku]

the last two blossoms on the mountain, 
bump petals on a common stem.

DAILY PHOTO: Stony Hill in Gudibanda