Cockscomb Echo [Haiku]

cockscomb flowers
stand like brains on a stick;
nature echoes strangely

No Egret [Haiku]

the egret walks
away from a lone cow that's
too still to stir bugs

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kodagu

Taken in 2013 in Coorg [Kodagu]

DAILY PHOTO: Craggy Dome Overlook, Appalachia

Taken in November of 2021 at the Craggy Dome Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway

Rock Agama [Tanka]

a Rock Agama
peeks over a rock, stops,
and tries to be
inconspicuously
bright orange

Nocturnal [Kyōka]

owl sticks its head out,
staring in silent rebuke
as if to say:
"Hey! I'm nocturnal.
What's with all the ruckus?"

DAILY PHOTO: Whitewater & Pines

Taken near Jeti-Ögüz in the Summer of 2019
 
           

Tributary [Free Verse]

Your river is a tributary.
My river is a tributary,
merging
&
flowing to a sea.

I feel your molecules,
floating past my own,
intermingling
& 
in some way tingling:
a jangled excitation.

And, 
[at the sea]
we will be, together
&
[at the sea]
we will be together.

I no longer worry
that I'm a river with no name --
an anonymous tributary -- 
because every sea 
has many names.

DAILY PHOTO: Kaindy Lake, Kazakhstan

Taken in the Summer of 2019 at Kaindy Lake

The submerged trees [below] for which Kaindy Lake is famed came about when part of the mountain sloughed off to create a natural dam and reservoir [above.]