Farmer [Haiku]

a stooped farmer, 
fingers in the soil,
forgets back pain

DAILY PHOTO: Swollen Barachukki Falls

Taken in August of 2022 at Barachukki Falls

DAILY PHOTO: Sunset over the Chobe River

Taken in May of 2017 in Botswana

Young & Old [Haiku]

bamboo, young & supple,
looms over knurly and
stunted hardwoods

Nettle [Haiku]

i’ve seen nettles,
& i’ve felt nettles —
better the former

Bear Bouffant [Limerick]

There once was a quite sizable bear --
yet more imposing for its shaggy hair.
"If I took a shave,
I'd better fit my cave, 
but hunters would laugh, not beware."

Silent Chimes [Haiku]

silent forest.
wind chimes hang stiffly,
as leaves sway

Cloud Deception [Haiku]

puffy white clouds
seem no less solid 
than gray granite

Weightless Birds [Free Verse]

tweets & cheeps

i hear them all:
dainty expressions 
of tiny birds

i hear them amid
the neck-stretched caws
of jungle crows
& amid
the circling 
screech hawks

weightless birds:
flitting & jumping, 

flitting with wings
blurred to invisibility 
&
jumping:
bounce - bounce - bounce