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.

Shadow Play [Haiku]

a butterfly
plays with shape & shadow
on a sunlit leaf.

Autumn Denial [Haiku]

grass dries & withers,
the trees yellow & thin...
but one vital shrub.

Fish Time [Common Meter]

Fish mill about the koi pond --
No hooks or fishnets;
Just falling leaves to break up
Hours into minutes.

Squirrel Alarm [Haiku]

bushy black tail
waves frantically:
squirrel alarm.

Stony Landscape [Haiku]

in the Springtime,
wildflowers grow around
stones and boulders.

Mud Volcano [Haiku]

mud bubbles,
swelling gradually,
bursting instantly.