Crack in the Jungle [Haiku]

in a dim jungle,
 cloud & sky are reflected
  in a stream.

DAILY PHOTO: Shri Rampurush Devasthan, Anjuna

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Sunset Waters [Haiku]

jagged silver stripes
shine in the flooded jungle
at sunset

Strangler Fig Limerick

There was a man who lived in the jungle -oh!
A fig took root in the roof of his bungalow.
'Twas a spotless hut,
'til the door grew shut, 
and the place was overcome by a fungal growth.

Temple on a Hill [Free Verse]

granite bubbled out of the jungle,
and - upon it - they built a temple

its walls were anchored into stone
until its walls were the hill,
and the hill was its walls

and no one could find one true point
at which one ended & the other began

was it built to be 
closer to the heavens,
or further from hell?

not by people for whom
heaven & hell
reside in the mind --
unattainable by velocity,
inescapable by distance --
constant traveling companions
only confronted head-on

maybe they wanted it to feel
permanent,
knowing even that granite
would crumble in due time

DAILY PHOTO: Rising Above the Canopy, Tikal

Taken around 2010 in Tikal, Guatemala

Digesting Civilization [Haiku]

jungle engulfs,
swallows, and digests
once proud buildings

DAILY PHOTO: Rice Paddies in Sri Lanka

Taken in May of 2015 near Ramboda Falls, Sri Lanka

DAILY PHOTO: View from Pre Rup

Taken at Pre Rup (Angkor) in October of 2012

DAILY PHOTO: Ta Prohm Strangler

Taken in October of 2012 at Angkor, Ta Prohm