DAILY PHOTO: Ban Gioc Waterfall

Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]

clouds fill the valley:
a gauzy avalanche
in slow motion.

Sun Tinged [Haiku]

mountain snow:
tinged orange
by sunrise.

“Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern” (A Fragment) by William Wordsworth [w/ Audio]

Thou strainest through the mountain fern,
A most exiguously thin
Burn.
For all thy foam, for all thy din,
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-
Burne!
Take then this quarto in thy fin
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,
The whole affair, outside and in,
Burn!
But save the true poetic kin,
The works of Mr. Robert Burn'
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-
Tern!

Forfeit [Haiku]

brown moth blends against bare earth,
'til footfall tremor sends it lurching.

Summer Fluff [Haiku]

gone to fluff:
flowers quietly await a
good, stiff breeze.

Mud [Haiku]

Spring rain for days:
grass is green & thick;
the mud, soft & thin.

Bright Fringed [Haiku]

bright-fringed clouds 
with blackened bellies drift:
summer day sundown.

Illusion of Depth [Haiku]

shifting shadow
on sandy bottom betrays
illusory depth.

Autumn Moon [Haiku]

Autumn moon first glimpse 
is impossibly huge;
the next, it shrank!