Walking Alone III [Haiku]

clouds drift;
a boy traces shapes with a
pointing finger

DAILY PHOTO: Helicopter in the Mountains

Taken in May of 2018 near Annapurna Base Camp [ABC]

Mountain Fog [Free Verse]

fogged in at a teahouse,
a growing gray of view,

this world lacks 
sharp lines,
excepting the hint of:

-a sloping roofline
&
-a building's corner

 these lines are 
sharp relative to
the amorphous gray;

but fuzzy compared to 
the same line's clarity 
on a blue sky day

now,
they're blurred, 
as if the village
had been painted by a
skilled - but lazy -
painter,

a sumi-e master
with a melancholy soul

Night Sky [Haibun]

Flipping open the tent flap, I see a vast and glowing night sky. It's not the shabby patch of light points of my sky at home. Here, high in the mountains, far from any city, I can make out bands of color and dazzling webs of luminosity. 

And I can feel the tininess that past men must have felt, a diminished sense of importance that's hard to come by for a human standing on the Earth, where flags are planted everywhere and grand monuments to our pomposity are packed into dense clusters.



mountain sky.
the cloudless night
glows infinite 

Across the Valley [Tanka]

the waterfall,
thunderous and lofty,
is a thin stream
from across the valley,
and yet i stop & stare

DAILY PHOTO: Chandravalli Lake

Taken on September 10, 2021 at Chandravalli Lake

Grazing Horse Tanka

grazing horses
approach a cliff:
not watching
where they are going,
but knowing where they are

DAILY PHOTO: Shyok Valley

Taken in Ladakh in August of 2016

DAILY PHOTO: Yurts Far Below, Boz-Salkyn

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