Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

the overnight train.
 foggy mind / sleep deprived:
  sunrise sky painting

the turtle 
 moves slowly; i wonder
  if it sees slowly?

the spider looked thin,
 but - given its limb-span -
  that's little comfort

winter sunrise
 lights the bridge & gorge wall.
  i stand in the dark

the sun rises
 behind a bare rain tree,
  a glowing heart

infinite shades
of yellow-orange
in each petal

a false blossom,
 that crawls with wasps, hangs
  from a bare branch

two-season tropics:
rain-slick yellow leaves
fib that it's autumn

ripe grain turns gold,
the year has matured like a
person going gray

Buddha is still;
the clouds wander...
one crow caws