Category Archives: outdoors

DAILY PHOTO: Swollen Barachukki Falls

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Taken in August of 2022 at Barachukki Falls

Silent Chimes [Haiku]

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silent forest.
wind chimes hang stiffly,
as leaves sway

DAILY PHOTO: Vindhyagiri at a Distance

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Taken in September of 2022 in Shravanabelagola

Steps [Haiku]

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at the bottom,
i feel my legs work;
at the top, i see

Cattails [Free Verse]

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In a patch of Deccan wetlands,
I see the cattails of my Hoosier youth.

Half a world away,
and nature grants me continuity
that culture can't provide.

I am transported to my youth
by a common landscape.

Indiana -- India,
names almost the same, 
but ever so different...

except the cattails.

DAILY PHOTO: Om Beach

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Taken at Om Beach, Gokarna in August of 2020

Rocky Shores [Free Verse]

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a rocky monolith,
jutting from the sea,
is smashed by waves.

overgrown with moss
& gnarled trees.

battered brutally
& unrelentingly,

and yet unchanged 
& unmoved.

 birds confidently
settle upon the rocks
&
take off again,
leisurely.

DAILY PHOTO: Red Rock Arroyo in Kyrgyzstan

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Taken in Fairy Tale (Skazka) Canyon in the Summer of 2019

Blue in the Distance [Haiku]

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the desert runs
all the way to the lakeshore,
where it - surely - ends?