Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

mountain bamboo,
 on the sunny side, 
  cools & quiets.

even a stream
 charges a toll, and
  thwarts cheaters.
 step on stone: slip & fall;
 sink calf deep: you may pass.

rice harvested;
 the paddies are dry.
  buffaloes graze.

bougainvillea &
 gold trumpet grow together: 
  one tree, two personas.

a sea of clouds:
 flat & calm; rimmmed with
  cumulus mountains.

snake wrestles fish
 onto rocky home turf, &
  blends with sun-warmed stones.

the sky is afire,
 and, yet, i can see my breath
 on chill winter air.

full bloom clockweed
 is on the clock as autumn
 ages to winter.

grass-rattle, plop!
 grass-rattle, plop! -- repeats...
 at last, I see a frog.