Solid Ground [Free Verse]

sole to cold earth:

it's the only way i know
 the limits of this world.

feet pressing into this globe
 are my tether to reality.

any other way, and the world
  could stretch forever.

the feel of my weight,
 popping to heel or ball:
  pronating & supinating,
  rolling & reaching,
   in dance or destruction --

 feet leaving the cold earth
  always reorient to the planet.

Five Wise Lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

We fat all creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for maggots… a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.”

HamLet to Claudius in Act IV, Sc. 3

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Hamlet to Queen Gertrude in Act I, Sc. 5

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Hamlet to rosencrantz & Guildenstern in Act I, sc. 2

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Polonius to claudius & gertrude in act II, sc. 2

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

hamlet to rosencrantz in act IV, Sc. 2

Cool Blue [Haiku]

cloudless sky.
 fading shades of blue:
  cool mountain summer.

Slow World [Haiku]

clouds drift 
over a granite dome,
and time slows.

DAILY PHOTO: Colorful Ulsoor Lake Temples

Down the Valley [Haiku]

the sun rises
down the valley:
peeking cautiously.

Blossom Burst [Haiku]

spherical blossom
reminds me of fireworks
from my youth.

Gull Prowl [Haiku]

gull on the prowl:
 wings move erratically,
  head methodically.

Summer Storms [Haiku]

Summer beach day;
 swollen clouds slog nearer:
  mass exodus.