DAILY PHOTO: Monkey Portraits, Bali

Contemplating Chains [Haiku]

baby monkey
seems to contemplate chains,
or i anthropomorphize?

Dove Raid [Haiku]

two doves dine
on temple offerings,
untroubled by smoke

Banana Leaf Snail [Haiku]

a snail hangs
on a banana leaf,
effortlessly

Monkey Sage [Haiku]

the monkey sage sits —
not napping, but looking so,
on the temple wall

Lopburi Limerick

There was a hasty driver from Lopburi
who wasn't fond of the residents, furry.
"Get off my damn back
about the macaques,
they lollygag whenever I'm in a hurry!"

Miasma [Haiku]

the scent of death
assaults my nostrils: 
carcass or fungi?

Crow’s Eye [Haiku]

the crow's eye
remains glued on me
as its head swivels

Cambridge U. Limerick

When Lord Byron lived at Cambridge University,
he greatly increased campus diversity.
He lived with a bear.
They were quite the pair.
For the poet, the dog ban was a perversity.

Stampede [Free Verse]

Wildlife charges through the city
like the bulls of Pamplona,

a stampede of death 
from a river of life,

a river that flows turbulently,
crashing and slopping.

Nothing can falter before the stampede.
Each step must land solidly,
each step until one's last.