Under the Falls [Haiku]

cold water pounds
 on back & shoulders: some nerves
  numb; some fire wildly.

Dark River [Lyric Poem]

flow on, Dark River;
  slip through the night.

midnight's thick clouds
  block the moonlight.

your voice drowned out
  by insect chirr.

a Huck Finn raft
  drifts by at a blur:

the rafters unseen;
  their secret stays hush...

but for those red eyes
  in the underbrush.

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.

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.