Cloud Ceiling [Haiku]

cloud touches hill
 as if it's resting on it.
  smell of spring rains.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air & Space Museum

Midsummer Masquerade [Haiku]

rainy summer day
 masquerades as early spring,  
  while noon plays dusk.

Coastal Wetlands [Haiku]

those flat wetlands
 might stretch out for miles,
  or, maybe, inches?

Traveling Salesman Limerick

A man who sold marital aids door to door
  heard from a husband in an uproar.
   "An 'aid' for whom?
   It can't be the groom.
 Your product has three speeds, so I now need four."  

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Atlanta

Duty-Free Limerick

There once was a lazy sales clerk 
 who didn’t want clients to think her a jerk.
  The solution, you see, 
  was the airport duty-free,
 where there’d be no obligation to work.
 [And the salary would be a nice perq.]

Feather in Water [Haiku]

feather in water
 refuses to be removed,
  rolls from each grasp.

DAILY PHOTO: Religious Buildings in Beijing

St. Joseph’s Church on Wanfujing Street (a.k.a. Wanfujing Church / Dongtang); Roman Catholic

Lama Temple (a.k.a. Yonghe Temple); Tibetan Buddhist (i.e. Vajrayana Buddhist)

Beijing Temple of Confucius; Confucian

Limerick of Confucius

The great Chinese philosopher Confucius
 wrote in maxims to avoid being circumlocutious.
   [That's a word that absurdly
   describes being wordy.]
 Be like Confucius, not like this verbose doofus.