DAILY PHOTO: 85 Sky Tower, Kaohsiung

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ximending

Fierce Creatures [Haiku]

city, nightfall:
the temple’s fierce creatures
turn nightmare shapes.

Yielding [Senryū]

the grass sways,
while skyscrapers stand stiffly:
so impressive, the grass!

DAILY PHOTO: Taipei 101 from Three Distances

DAILY PHOTO: Taiwan by Night

Night Market by Penglai Elementary School

PROMPT: Cities

Daily writing prompt
What cities do you want to visit?

As many as I can, but I guess the top ten list (of cities I haven’t been to) would be: Kyoto, Guilin, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Zanzibar, Lhasa, Santiago, and Havana. [Not necessarily in order.]

Introduction to Myth Making [Free Verse]

From the hilltop,
  one can watch nature reclaim:
 green grows up the glass,
 tufts sprout from each crevice
  and the man-made world is crevice-laden,
 one seed blown into a mortar crack
  will become a wedge --
   a sprout that splits stone.

Concrete and steel prove
  digestible:
  time, water, oxygen,
 the enzymatic requirements are few.

Fungi blooms from a pile-full of dung.

I don't know whether it's a desirable meal,
  whether our trappings & vestiges are
  haute cuisine,
   or merely a meal
   of convenience.

This place was once with us.
 Now, it's hidden so well
  that it's become a myth,
 a once firm and tangible thing --
  now invisible & conceptual.

Nature swallowed our world
 and farted our mythos.

DAILY PHOTO: Chicago River Scenes

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kadalekai Parishe 2023 [Bangalore Groundnut Festival]