Long Days Inside Short Days [Senryū]

the grain is ripe. 
the days are short.
the farmer, weary.

DAILY PHOTO: Sân Bóng Sóc Hà

Hermit Time [Haiku]

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

DAILY PHOTO: Luang Namtha Farm

Surrounded [Haiku]

farm surrounded by jungle:
what will disappear tonight?

Feral [Haiku]

Cow Pasture: Photo taken north of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on the hike to the Nareshwar Temple Group.
the pasture sprawls: 
once dull & docile cows
now have feral eyes.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain & Farmland in North Vietnam

Image

A view of mountain and farmland taken along QL3 in Cao Bang District of Northern Vietnam.

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
farmer saunters along
a rice terrace.

The Goat [Lyric Poem]

There once was an adolescent goat
Who'd put anything straight down its throat:
It ate twigs and tires and old barbed wire,
And even once a deep fat fryer.

Rain Dance [Haiku]

ripples dance
on a flooded paddy
as rain starts, slowly.