Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
buffeted by wind
& large raindrops

DAILY PHOTO: Scene from Bateshwar Temple Group of Morena

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Photograph of a couple of shrines in the Bateshwar Temple Group of Morena, north of Gwalior, India.

Migratory Highway [Haiku]

wild geese forage
beside the highway:
fueling for journey.

First Blossom [Haiku]

petal flutters down
from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
is it the first?

Winter View [Senryū]

Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India.
with trees bare, one sees
what Spring won't reveal:
monkeys don't care.

DAILY PHOTO: Holy Lords Transfiguration Convent, Tbilisi

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Photograph of a chapel at the Holy Lords Transfiguration Convent in Tbilisi, Georgia --  Queen Darejani Palace.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
amid wildflowers:
city disappears.

Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]

Photograph taken from a tower of the Ananuri Fortress Complex, looking at the Zhinvali Reservoir.
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,

carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.

From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.

As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Gobustan National Park outside Baku, Azerbaiian.
wildflowers bloom
-- sheltered by boulders --
on stony ground.

Daisy Waves [Haiku]

Photographs of Ox-Eye Daisies taken in Baku, Azerbaijian.
ox-eye daisies
ripple in the wind, or
when tousled by hand.