DAILY PHOTO: Big Almaty Lake: Two Views

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats [w/ Audio]

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
   And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
 Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
   And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
   Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
 There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
   And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
   I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
 While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
   I hear it in the deep heart's core. 

Double Rainbow [Haiku]

across the lake,
 two rainbows arch skyward:
  one, a faint echo.

Kashmir [Haiku]

poets & artists
 sit in ornate houseboats,
  translating the clouds.

Shape Shift [Haiku]

in waning sunlight,
 the shapes of shadows shift
  as boats drift.

Lake Waves [Haiku]

lake waves break ashore
 unpredictably, catching
  hapless strollers. 

Ripples [Haiku]

ripples on a pond:
the day seems still & windless,
but, somewhere, air moves.

DAILY PHOTO: Lake Michigan & Chicago Skyline

Lake Waves [Haiku]

sometimes placid as
a lake; sometimes churning
like the ocean.

Shimmer [Haiku]

gray-green waters
shimmer in summer sun:
leaves flutter onshore.