DAILY PHOTO: Live Oaks in Coliseum Square Park, New Orleans

Live Oak trees in Coliseum Square Park of New Orleans.

Garden Lanterns [Haiku]

legs in leaf litter,
garden lanterns catch light
that pierces bare woods.

Winter Woods [Haiku]

bare branches,
in the Winter forest,
look frost-covered.

Green Hills [Lyric Poem]

So many hills I have seen
That grow so soft and thick and green.
Though jagged rocks sit down below
The grass and shrubs and weeds that grow
Through cracks and gaps, in mud patches --
Sprawling wide from tight-knit batches
That stone cannot constrain or kill.

DAILY PHOTO: A View from Fo Guang Shan with Shrubbery

Rushed [Haiku]

through the Autumn,
one tree holds leaves longer,
then drops them faster.

Question Tree [Haiku]

one strange tree
curls like a question mark:
Autumnal forest.

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn Ginko

CAMBODIA LIMERICK

There was a Cambodian archaeologist 
who dug up temples in jungles – get the gist.
But one day his dig,
under a Strangler Fig,
got him strangled… or so claimed the botanist.

Weeds [Haiku]

summer grasses
wave atop a once mighty fort
that's gone to seed.