Weightless [Haiku]

a heron stands tall
at the branch’s end,
as if weightless.

DAILY PHOTO: Foggy Mountains

PROMPT: Time of Day

What’s your favorite time of day?

Mornings. I’m a lark. It’s when I’m at my highest energy level.

PROMPT: Recipe

Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite recipe?

I prefer to keep my cooking in the realm in which I can wing it without great a risk of disaster. Otherwise, it becomes too much like a science lab, and that’s a lot of pressure.

“Snowflakes” (45) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town --
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down --
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig --
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!

Stone Ghost [Haiku]

the clouds retreat,
revealing hilltop ruins:
a ghost in stone.

DAILY PHOTO: Landour

Staggering [Haiku]

hill slope trees
like staggering figures:
soon swallowed in fog.

Right-Side-Down [Haiku]

the butterfly
knows no upside-down, only
where the flowers are.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Happy Valley Buddhist Monastery (a.k.a. Shedup Choepelling Gompa)