Green Branch [Haiku]

a brown branch
runs beside the green branch
that isn't a branch

Thorny Nightshade [Tanka]

thorny leaves
and poisonous fruits;
if ever
a plant wanted 
to be left alone!

DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain Lake

Taken in September of 2011 in Stone Mountain Park

Parakeets Eat [Haiku]

two parakeets eat;
to my human eye,
one looks ashamed

Sprout [Haiku]

a seed sprouts,
stretching toward the light
to be infinite

Green Field [Haiku]

sunlit green field;
clouds drift in from behind --
the farmer watches

DAILY PHOTO: Thangsing Camp, Sikkim

Taken on the Goechala Trail at Thangsing Camp in May of 2022

DAILY PHOTO: A Peruvian Lily in Sikkim

Taken at Rumtek Monastery near Gangtok

Sunrise Over the Mountain [Free Verse]

sunlight pours over the mountain,
cascading into the valley,
drawing all eyes into its blinding whiteness

too much light enters my eye
just as too much information, 
sometimes,
enters my mind

and, yet, i peer through the searing pain -
just for the view

Fungi Propinquity [Free Verse]

two tender, little mushrooms
stand amid a mossy expanse

i'm moved by their intimate proximity

though i don't know it to be
anything other than a
random molecular fact,

and yet it speaks to me,
and i feel proximity & distance
all the more intensely