POEM: Flower Market

Taken in September of 2013 in Bangalore at K.R. Market

Garland coils in saffron and yellow.
Burlap bags of loose blooms in many hues.
Free petals strewn across the floor.

Vendors sit like stamen, still amid the chaos.
Customers waft around like pollen on the wind.
And workers flit about like industrious bees.

DAILY PHOTO: Green Mountains, Himachal Pradesh

Taken in June of 2015 in Great Himalayan National Park, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh

DAILY PHOTO: Darbhanga Ghat at Dawn

Taken in October of 2015 in Varanasi (Benares)

Varanasi Haiku

Sacred Ganga,
Welcome to our city.
What gifts you’ll take.

 

Narrow warren,
lanes lined with bright-hued goods,
bangle blind and lost.

 

Cattle herd
roams the parched mudflat,
kicking up dust.

 

A golden bridge
visits each morning, and
exits silently.

 

Wood stackers
endlessly working
the burning ghats.

DAILY PHOTO: From Nandi Hills

Taken in March of 2014 at Nandi Hills

DAILY PHOTO: A Few Exhibits of the Indian Museum, Kolkata

Taken in July of 2016 in Kolkata (Calcutta)

DAILY PHOTO: The Streets of Mumbai

Taken in July of 2018 in Mumbai (Bombay)

DAILY PHOTO: Standing in Canoe, Kaziranga N.P.

Taken in April of 2017 in Kaziranga National Park in Assam

On a Brahmaputra tributary in Kaziranga National Park.

DAILY PHOTO: Hilltop Temples, Ramnagar

Taken in May of 2015 at Ramnagar, Karnataka

DAILY PHOTO: Across the Ganges, Rishikesh

Taken in November of 2017 in Rishikesh