DAILY PHOTO: Gaganachukki Falls

Taken on August 13, 2022 in South Karnataka

High Tide Island [Haiku]

the high tide island
is a rocky outcrop
when waters retreat

DAILY PHOTO: Coastal Cliff in Kerala

Taken near Varkala in March of 2016

Winter Cardinal [Haiku]

swollen cardinal
looks like it's been gorging,
but it's winter puffed

DAILY PHOTO: Rushing Water

Taken in July of 2013 in Arabia Mountain Park, Georgia

Winter Moonlight [Haiku]

At the Park Gate; John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878)
silver moonlight
glints off the mid-winter thaw --
shining coldly

DAILY PHOTO: Coffee or Tea? Why Not Coffee & Tea

Taken on a Coffee & Tea Plantation in Coorg (Kodagu)

DAILY PHOTO: Sunset Buddha Silhouette, Sri Lanka

Taken in Kandy, Sri Lanka in May of 2015

DAILY PHOTO: The Mountains Around Manali

Taken in Manali in June of 2015

Deep in the Forest [Free Verse]

What happens in the
strange, nearsighted
isolation of the forest? --

sounds dulled by 
thick, soft moss
and masked 
by burbling water,
and insect buzz,
and bird song

What happens to the
rude mechanicals
who venture too deep
into those soft but terminal
lands? --

where the last stand
of life plays out