Shades of Green [Haiku]

myriad greens
texture the mountain,
when the sun is out

Strange Haze [Haiku]

strange, hazy morning --
the light just right to tune
up the greens

Lake Changes [Haiku]

in summer, the tarn
looks like greenish concrete, then
settles to teal glass

Himalayan Oasis [Haiku]

on the arid steppe
sits a green oasis -
patchwork fields

Chiaroscuro Green [Free Verse]

densely packed stands of pine,
the dark green 
insinuating black shadow

set against the verdant
grassy meadows
and shaggy scrubland

it makes the mountain 
look angular,
 with sharp edges
pounded into shape

the pine-writ shadows
steal depth,
suggesting absence,
creating the impression
of emptiness,

a false void...

or so it seems

Coffee Plantation [Haiku]

coffee estate.
one yellow plant stands out
from a wall of green

Blush [Haiku]

green seed pods
blush to blood red,
then split open

Vertigo Green [Haibun]

Life overtakes all. Moss coats stone; vines smother shrubs; trees straddle walls. All growing in splotched patterns of green -- a million shapes of leaf in a million subtly different shades. My world is awash in green. My mind is soothed by deep greens, and fired by the bright light-greens of fresh growth. My periphery swirls and blurs with green.


a mossy stone 
becomes my focal point,
the fringe blurs

DAILY PHOTO: The Green, Green Grass of Dubai

Taken in May of 2016 in Dubai.