Rainy Rice Field [Haiku]

rain patters
in the rice paddy;
a frog croaks.

Bats in the Bamboo [Haiku]

bats hang in bamboo —
blanket-wrapped in wings —
hang like their food, fruit.

PROMPT: More

What could you do more of?

Walk in natural settings.

DAILY PHOTO: Western Ghats by Evening

PROMPT: Energy

What things give you energy?

Breath and food. But I also find movement, music, and being in a natural setting feel energizing,

Sound & Silence [Haiku]

insects chirp
under autumn skies; the
river runs silent.

DAILY PHOTO: Zambezi Views

Poppy Mind [Haiku]

wild poppies
take my mind to a tragic
poem learned in youth.

Stony & Frozen [Free Verse]

Stony & Frozen:
and yet there's something
the mind loves about
snowcapped mountains.

Something calming --

Maybe it's their stillness.
Maybe it's a nature sync.
Maybe it's that one is in
a green pasture with a
pleasant breeze and
sun warming one's face
as one looks upon those
harsh and barren lands.
Maybe it's awe at the proximity
of the inhospitable -- the uninhabitable --
lands, lands that seem so close
to one's idyllically habitable lands.
(If owing more to their grandiosity
than true proximity.)

Grass & Rock [Haiku]

a shoot sprouts
in a shallow divot,
on the rocky cliff.