Shades of Green [Haiku]

sunlit garden
to distant mountains —
every shade of green.

DAILY PHOTO: Sân Bóng Sóc Hà

DAILY PHOTO: Lanterns, Bunhwangsa Temple of Gyeongju

Hermit Time [Haiku]

cave hermit
can’t see farmers in fields, just
brown to green to tan.

DAILY PHOTO: Midtown Sundown

Cheeto Skies [Senryū]

a shade of orange
that doesn’t exist in nature…
yet - there it is!

Lake Ice [Lyric Poem]

Sun-sparkles on the lake’s far end
look icy cool beneath blue skies,
but Winter shivers, I suspend,
because late Spring is telling lies.

Passing Buddha [Lyric Poem]

The train is speeding down the line.
Gold Buddha glints in the sunshine.
Jarring is the train whistle’s whine,
we plunge into a dark tunnel.

Green Hills [Lyric Poem]

So many hills I have seen
That grow so soft and thick and green.
Though jagged rocks sit down below
The grass and shrubs and weeds that grow
Through cracks and gaps, in mud patches --
Sprawling wide from tight-knit batches
That stone cannot constrain or kill.

Rain Splotch[Haiku]

chilly winter day,
prismatic splotch in sky—
no bow, no ring.