Cotton Candy Clouds [Haiku]

clouds, pulled & rolled
like fine webbing, glow in the
conch-orange sunlight

DAILY PHOTO: Lingaraj Temple, Bhubaneshwar

Taken December 19, 2021 in Bhubaneshwar

DAILY PHOTO: Kodaikanal from the Overlook

Taken in 2018 in Kodaikanal

DAILY PHOTO: Neill Island Sunrise Beach

Taken on Neill Island (Shaheed Dweep) in December of 2018

Mind-Breaking Poetry [Free Verse]

I need some mind-breaking poetry -
some Blake, some Dickinson,
some Yeats, some Whitman,
some Langston Hughes.

I need a poem that's a kōan, 
that makes the mind a mackerel fish,
and doesn't mind doing it.

I need a poem that sizzles
inside my bones.

Dreams All the Way Down [Free Verse]

I awaken from a dream
within a dream,
and I'm still dreaming --

dreaming that I'm walking
with the others,
the others that I'm told
are all me,
walking in some vaguely familiar
exotic destination

Of course, I don't know I'm dreaming.

I did wake up after all,
but it turns out that

it's dreams all the way down.