Mountain Mimicry [Haibun]

The cloud mimicked a mountain top, its ridge sun fired to bright white by the rising sun, its shadow side in granite gray, being impenetrable to the sun's rays. Mountains that imposing live a thousand miles away, but that cloud took me there. 

the morning sun
lights up a dense cloud
to mimic mountains

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds & Sky, Siquijor

Taken in December of 2017 on Siquijor

Wide Open Spaces [Free Verse]

out of my cell 
&
onto the trail

i walk the vast expanse,
the vault of heaven above
&
hills of rolling green
beneath my feet

and clouds barge through
blue skies
like thoughts barge through
my mind -

sluggishly
but
inevitably

Misplaced Driftwood [Haiku]

on a green hillside
stands a line of dead trees,
looking like driftwood

Whitewater [Haiku]

churning water
polishes river rocks
glossy smooth

Burning Bush [Tanka]

amid buff sands -
bare and blistering -
stands a shrub,
the carroty coned
ephedra bush