DAILY PHOTO: Scenes From the North Laos Countryside

Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of farmland and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.

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

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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.