Shimmer [Haiku]

gray-green waters
shimmer in summer sun:
leaves flutter onshore.

Symbiosis [Haiku]

chital eats grass.
 myna eats bugs off chital:
  everyone 's happy.

Monsoon Monochrome [Haiku]

thick, low clouds,
 backlit hazy ridges, and no
  discernible color.

Five Wise Lines from Macbeth

Macbeth & Banquo Encounter the Witches
by Theodore Chasseriau

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

Duncan in Act I, Scene 4

“Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.”

Macbeth in Act I, Scene 7

“when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

Wife of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2

“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat up the honest men and hang them up.”

Son of Macduff in Act IV, Scene 2

“Life ‘s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Macbeth in Act V, Scene 5

Green, Green Hills [Haiku]

the green hills,
 lit through monsoon clouds,
  change shape before me. 

Hidden Path [Haiku]

the path that runs
 through the millet field is
  only seen head-on. 

Spotless [Common Meter]

The Ladybug of my childhood
 had polka-dots of black,
  adorning the split red shell
   that covered its wings and back.

So, who erased this bug's black dots
 to make it less dice-like,
  making it a Lady in red?
   Said thief can take a hike.

I had so many fine questions,
 but it just flew away.
  Maybe a bug somewhere out there
   has more spots coming its way.

Twisted Petals [Haiku]

twisted petals
 of frangipani blossoms
  stay one when dropping.