Category Archives: Poetry

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

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Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India. 
temple wall
 overgrown with weeds;
  idols kept pristine.

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

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Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
 buffeted by wind
  & large raindrops

Mazu Temple [Senryū]

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Photograph of Tin Hua Temple in the Causeway Bay neighborhood of Hong Kong.
Temple of Mazu,
 patron goddess of sailors,
  locked up for typhoon.

Lean Street Kitty [Haiku]

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Photograph of a street kitten on the Sri Someshwara Swami Temple of Halasuru, Bangalore, India.
lean street kitten:
 face much older than its
  scrawny body.

Migratory Highway [Haiku]

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wild geese forage
 beside the highway:
  fueling for journey.

First Blossom [Haiku]

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petal flutters down
 from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
  is it the first?

Winter View [Senryū]

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Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India. 
with trees bare, one sees
 what Spring won't reveal:
  monkeys don't care.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
 amid wildflowers:
  city disappears.

Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken from a tower of the Ananuri Fortress Complex, looking at the Zhinvali Reservoir. 
Sinuous channels
   cut through the 
       river's muddy
               bottom,

 carrying clear water
    ever downward  
        - ever onward.

From fortress walls
    it's all been seen --
       drought and flood,
    but something always
        trickled through.

As it was before those
     stones were stacked.
 As it will be when the
      last rubble crumbles
         into uncut
              dust & rock.