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.

Breeze [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Gölkənarı Gəzinti Parkı, facing toward the Heydar Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
reeds bend and rebound
to breezes unnoticed
in the city.

Nature DGAF [Haiku]

Photograph of bitterweed around a grave in a cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wildflowers grow
around an unattended grave;
pooped on by birds.

DAILY PHOTO: Noravank Under the Bluff

Image

Photograph of Noravank Monastery in Armenia with red cliffs looming across the way.

PROMPT: Song

Daily writing prompt
What’s a song that always puts you in a good mood?

Beautiful Day. U2.

Despite its grim lyrics.

Between Rains [Senryū]

Photograph of wildflowers atop South Mountain near Gyeongju, South Korea.
wildflowers warm soul
as step into puddle chills
the whole body.

Toad’s Time [Senryū]

Photograph of a Fire-Bellied Toad taken near Gyeongju, South Korea.
toad looks primed to leap;
i watch... and watch..., but no.
glancing back; it's gone.

Greyfield [Lyric Poem]

It wound around the burial mounds
through the soft and seedy sides
of town

And though it was but one foot shallow,
non-townies were swallowed
(and surely drowned)
because that ground was hallowed.

It took souls, lost - never to be found -
then rolled on to the next ghost town.

DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain from Lakeside

PROMPT: Fear

Daily writing prompt
What’s a fear you’ve overcome — and how did you do it?

Swimming in the deeps.

Swimming day in and day out until my buoyancy became an incontrovertible fact of nature that not even my amygdala could deny.