DAILY PHOTO: St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan

“Ascending Happiness Plateau” by Li Shangyin [w/ Audio]

At day's end, feeling ill-at-ease,
Riding a cart to the plateau.
The setting sun fires glorious skies,
But a yellow dusk is coming.

Lightness [Haiku]

an egret alights 
on a coracle boat
without nudging it.

DAILY PHOTO: Gallery of Water, Jermuk

Bush Bird Math [Senryū]

a bird in a bush:
does it know it’s worth
half a bird in hand?

“There was an Old Man with a beard” by Edward Lear [w/ Audio]

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"

NOTE: This poem no. 1 of Lear’s The Book of Nonsense.

Zen Garden [Haiku]

little Zen Garden
evokes a craggy cliff
despite scale issues.

The Dao Keeps Rolling [Tanka]

one character, Dao,
looks like a road that rounds
some great attraction,
but keeps moving onward
to undiscovered country.

DAILY PHOTO: Mt. Kazbek and Gergeti

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Dog Rose [Haiku]

one dog rose bloom
stands out from a blurred world:
still, as shadows twist.