DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Annapurna Base Camp

Yin – Yang World [Haiku]

mountain morning:
 sun-warmed icecaps over
  a valley of night.

DAILY PHOTO: Kurseong Blues

DAILY PHOTO: Sunlight Crawls Up the Valley

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Mountain Life [Haiku]

in misty mountains,
 lichen & moss carpeted,
  two mushrooms stand tall.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Tshoka

The Scrublands [Haiku]

dust rises,
 in little eddies,
  with each footfall.

DAILY PHOTO: Qoq Jaiyq Valley, Kyrgyzstan

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The Churn [Free Verse]

The water churns --
   no smooth laminar flow.

Each molecule fights its way
   down the mountain. 

Sloshing up into evaporation, or
    dragged, swirling, across 
     the rocky bottom.

This is no mighty, muddy river
    in a gentle glide.

It's pretty chaos;
    just the kind I'm used to.

Runaway Imagination [Haiku]

a bird-shaped cloud!
 then the mountain becomes a
  dreadnought on calm seas.