DAILY PHOTO: Green Hills of Devaramane

Taken at Devaramane Hills in October of 2020

DAILY PHOTO: Bright Flowers

Taken in Bangalore in February of 2021.

POEM: Clifftop Flowers

Saffron-hued flowers huddle on a wind-whipped clifftop.

Sea breezes toss and twirl pollen,
eddies send some back down to the beach.
Land breezes feed pollen to the dark waters far below.

The flowers are ever-tousled by the wind’s rough hand.

What must they love, in their sightless stance,
that matches my sighted stare at sea and sky?

DAILY PHOTO: Chocolate Hills [Not at Their Most Chocolaty]

Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol in the Philippines

Changing Skies: Three Tanka

I
a gray day,
low dreary clouds hang down;
smoky air
clings to the earth —
all is close; nothing moves

 

II
tall puffy clouds
drift across the sky
like ship’s bridges,
moving in armada
through skies, calm & blue

 

III
a blue dome,
unblemished by clouds
if not for birds
looking to the sky
would stop the world

DAILY PHOTO: Seeking Shade on a Sunny Mountain, Kashmir

Taken in Kashmir, near Sonamarg, in August of 2016.

DAILY PHOTO: Zambezi Banks

Taken in June of 2017 on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

DAILY PHOTO: Lake Lanier in Autumn

Taken at Lake Lanier in October of 2011.

DAILY PHOTO: Twin Peaks, Kyrgyzstan

Taken in the summer of 2019 near Jeti Oguz

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Grass & Trees

Taken on the South River Trail in Georgia [US] in December of 2010