DAILY PHOTO: Interesting Statues of Malacca

Temple on Jonker Street
Dutch Square
Zheng He (Cheng Ho) Museum
On a grave on Bukit Cina (China Hill)

A Place of Death [Rubāʿī]

I walk past row on row of granite stones.
The grass is usually freshly mown,
but lately vegetation doesn't seem to grow,
and so, I kneel where seeds have been sown.

Graveyard Autumn [Haiku]

graves in autumn.
under red-leafed trees --
soon to be bare

Necropolis [Haiku]

the necropolis
sprawls across the desert --
desolate... to us 

DAILY PHOTO: Desert Cemetery, Kyrgyzstan

Taken in the summer of 2019 near Manzhyly Ata

Autumnal Reverie [Tanka]

wet yellow leaves
stuck to a rain-slick headstone,
and i'm in a land
not of tropical monsoons,
but which knows autumn

Graveyard Haiku

a headstone
worn unreadable
stone outlived bones


fresh flowers
and wild tufts of grass
tell mixed stories


granite mourners
draped over gravestones,
unweeping


no pyramid
is so sublime the Pharaoh
welcomed death

 

the potter’s field
has mystique unknown to
mausoleums