Nature Overwrites Culture [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Agartala at Gedu Mia's Mosque.
saplings sprout
from the ornate trim
of a once-grand mosque.

Stoic Tears [Haiku]

Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda  Hill in Karnataka, India.
buffeted by wind --
hunched & leaning windward,
stoic tears roll.

Winter Marsh [Haiku]

Photograph taken along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, Georgia.
light sparkles 
on shallow water:
winter marshland.

Winter Blossoms [Senryū]

Photograph of pink blossoms in Winter. Taken from the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA in early February.
Winter plum blossoms
try to trick mind and eye;
cold fingers won't buy.

Spring Cascade [Haiku]

Photograph of Shaki Waterfall in Armenia. Taken during the Spring.
Spring waterfall
grows by the day as ice --
somewhere -- shrinks.

Cherry Lovers [Senryū]

Photograph of a Cherry Tree branch taken in Yerevan, Armenia.
some love cherries;
some, blossoms; some, Fall leaves.
who loves trunk & branch?

Dine & Move [Haiku]

A House Sparrow on a cobbled road near the Cascade Complex in Yerevan, Armenia.
sparrow finds food
among well-trod cobbles,
then flits into blur.

Gray Beard [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, in bayou near Slidell, Louisiana.
Spanish Moss drapes
over Winter's bare branches
like a gray beard.

River Mind [Haiku]

the river widens,
slows / stopping, in places;
so goes my mind.

Long Days Inside Short Days [Senryū]

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