DAILY PHOTO: Karnataka Military Facility Goes Green

Taken at Mirjan Fort in August of 2020

Green City [Tanka]

a desert city
stretches green between
the mountains;
do people choose trees,
or do trees co-opt humans?

Green Branch [Haiku]

a brown branch
runs beside the green branch
that isn't a branch

Green Field [Haiku]

sunlit green field;
clouds drift in from behind --
the farmer watches

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