God’s Eye [Senryū]

Photograph of God's Eye Mountain in the Cao Bang Province of Vietnam.
hiked halfway around
the God's Eye Mountain before
its name made sense.

DAILY PHOTO: Uttari Betta

Photograph taken at Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India on a cloudy monsoon season day.
Photograph taken atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India with the farmland far below in the background.
Photograph of precariously positioned rocks atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph of a tree on the granite hill named Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.
roots grow down
through stony ground -- still,
Spring brings deep green.

DAILY PHOTO: Beomeosa Temple Drum Tower

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At photograph with a hill in the left background and a drum tower in the right foreground. Taken at Beomeosa Temple outside Busan, South Korea.

DAILY PHOTO: Macaque Family

Family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Hill in Karnataka, India.
Baby macaque monkey on the rocks atop of Gudibande Hill.
A family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Fort in the state of Karnataka in India.

Foggy Hilltop [Haiku]

foggy hilltop:
something moves,
striped by trunks.

Cloud Shadow [Haiku]

a cloud shadow 
dragged over the hill
like a blanket.

Doghead Cloud [Haiku]

Taken on the road between Cao Bang and the Pác Bó loop in Northern Vietnam.
doghead cloud
pops up over the hill;
as bike speeds along.

Mountain Crumbles [Haiku]

once a mountain,
now just boulders; someday
not a hill will remain.