Monsoon Green [Haiku]

Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
before monsoon is now
green and waterlogged.

Two Worlds / One Valley [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Stepantsminda down the Terek River valley towards Russia.
sunny mountains;
down the valley farmers
socked in by clouds.

Nature’s AC [Haiku]

Photograph of a small cascade between and around mossy rocks taken on the Kolsay Lake hike in Kazakhstan.
water rolls past
moss green rocks;
hikers pause in cool.

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

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

PROMPT: Weather

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite type of weather?

For being outside in: Mostly Sunny.

For watching unbridled chaos (from a distance, and preferably on video): tornadoes.

Naked Wisdom [Haiku]

Photograph of a barren tree taken on the Butch Kennedy Trail, near Lake Hartwell, in South Carolina.
one bare tree
knew not to bud or bloom
before the last freeze.

Queen of Stone [Haiku]

Haiku poem about "Queen's Head," a naturally occurring rock formation that looks like a graceful lady's neck and head (located in Yehliu Geologic Park.)
slender-necked beauty
that nature carved from rock...
-- doomed!

Cloudy Sky [Haiku]

Photograph of Chihkan Tower in Tainan, Taiwan.
look up: cloudy skies
from the upper story,
blot green yard from mind.

Ships at Anchor [Haiku]

Photograph of Kaohsiung Harbor in south Taiwan.
ships in harbor,
anchored fore and aft,
await the typhoon.

Wind Snitch [Free Verse]

Photograph of a wind turbine under blue skies. Taken along the highway between Budapest and Vienna.
The straight-stemmed turbines
are tattletales,
telling all about the stealthy
thief sneaking overhead.

With no clouds in the sky,
the wind could slip
out over the treetops,
and no one would know.

But the turbines turn,
slow as Taiji titans,
letting no movement
go untaxed.