Winter Marsh [Haiku]

Photograph taken along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, Georgia.
light sparkles 
on shallow water:
winter marshland.

Winter Blossoms [Senryū]

Photograph of pink blossoms in Winter. Taken from the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA in early February.
Winter plum blossoms
try to trick mind and eye;
cold fingers won't buy.

DAILY PHOTO: Big Creek Greenway Wildlife

White-Tailed Deer taken in Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, GA.
Eastern Gray Squirrel eating an acorn along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, GA.
A male / female pair of Hooded Merganser Ducks taken on the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA.

Spring Cascade [Haiku]

Photograph of Shaki Waterfall in Armenia. Taken during the Spring.
Spring waterfall
grows by the day as ice --
somewhere -- shrinks.

DAILY PHOTO: Noravank Monastery in Portrait Orientation

Image

A photograph of Armenia's Noravank Monastery taken in portrait orientation.

Dine & Move [Haiku]

A House Sparrow on a cobbled road near the Cascade Complex in Yerevan, Armenia.
sparrow finds food
among well-trod cobbles,
then flits into blur.

False Heralds [Tanka]

Photograph of Tbilisi, Georgia in the Spring with wildflowers in the fore and city as backdrop.
city landscapers
find year-round blooms for planters,
but I'll await
the wildflowers that grow
way up on the hillside.

Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]

Photograph taken at days end atop Gudibande Fort Hill in Karnataka, India.
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.

The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.

The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.

My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.

Gray Beard [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, in bayou near Slidell, Louisiana.
Spanish Moss drapes
over Winter's bare branches
like a gray beard.

A Walk in Winter Woods [Free Verse]

A photograph from the Roswell Greenway Trail in Roswell, Georgia, north of Atlanta.
In Winter,
when blue sky shows
between the twiggy,
bare branches,
the forest is not so
claustrophobic,
but sound and wind,
alike,
carry through.

A mind can roam
between the bracing
breezes.