PROMPT: Risk

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

Fully embrace the crazy, in the manner of Diogenes, Blake, or Drukpa Kunley.

DAILY PHOTO: Kolkata Pandals

DAILY PHOTO: Fishing in the Rain

Datta River; Sundarbans, West Bengal

Crocodile Hunter [Senryū]

at mangrove’s edge:
a croc, mouth agape.
lazy hunter?

DAILY PHOTO: Boat in the Light of the Setting Sun

Datta River, Sundarbans, West Bengal

PROMPT: Don’t Know

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Some people who know me (and most people who don’t) might not know that I would never announce something on a public forum that the people who know me don’t already know. I’m strangely private that way.

Tiger Stripe [Free Verse]

When setting sunlight warms 
silvery tree trunks &
mangrove reeds,
and they alternate with
deep shadows,
I finally understand
the tiger’s camouflage.

DAILY PHOTO: Forum Atmosphere, Kolkata

Jade Hills [Haiku]

clouds lift
to reveal jade hills:
Tah-Dahhhh!

DAILY PHOTO: Shravanbelagola