Spring [Haiku]

Nature writes “Spring”
in colorful blooms, even
over rough bark.

Yellow Blossom [Haiku]

yellow blossoms
herald the Spring:
fragrance spreads the news.

Fogless Fog [Haiku]

white blossoms 
seen through still bare trees:
looks like fog, sans fog.

DAILY PHOTO: Chobe River Sunset

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Photograph of a sunset taken from the Botswanan bank of the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park.

Chiaroscuro Clouds [Haiku]

Photograph of clouds in various shades of light and dark taken at Caye Caulker, Belize.
at days end,
clouds not burning bright white
sink into black.

Sunburst Fungi [Haiku]

Photograph of joint-toothed moss and tiny mushrooms taken near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
under thick moss,
two tiny mushrooms cause
sunburst guitar-mind.

Smoke Rise [Haiku]

Photograph taken from a bridge over the Nam Song River in Vang Vieng, Laos.
white smoke rises downriver:
backdropped by black mountains.

DAILY PHOTO: Gold & Blue [Wat Naxao Sukharam]

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A photograph of golden stupa and drum tower at Wat Naxao Sukharam in Naxao, Laos under vivid blue skies.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountains, Green & Snowcapped

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A photograph of a green hill loomed over by Mount Kazbek in Gergeti / Stepantsminda,  Republic of Georgia.

Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]

Photograph taken at days end atop Gudibande Fort Hill in Karnataka, India.
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.

The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.

The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.

My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.