DAILY PHOTO: The Well-worn Path

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Photograph of the well-worn trail up to Netravati Peak in Karnataka, India.

Dripping Blossom [Haiku]

Photograph of a pink and orange flower taken in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
droplets drip 
from the bottom petal,
after the rain.

Misty Mountain [Haiku]

Photograph of mushroom caps among lichens and leaves, taken in the mountains near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
in misty mountains,
tiny fungi bloom amid
lichens and mosses.

Jungle Entropy [Senryū]

Photograph taken on Bukit Cina in Malacca, Malaysia.
the jungle wants to 
hide, then eat, whatever
humans build in it.

PROMPT: Mars

Daily writing prompt
Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like?

Probably, and life will probably be short and toilsome for quite a while. Short because there’ll be loads of unintended consequence and we will probably learn there are many more aspects of Earth that are consequential to our wellbeing than we ever understood. Toilsome because, as European explorers in Africa thought that everything was trying to kill them, Mars colonists will find that there is not one thing there that wants them alive. Every task involves pushing a boulder uphill.

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
before monsoon is now
green and waterlogged.

Shadowland [Haiku]

Photograph of pastureland north of Gwalior near Mawai in Madhya Pradesh.
big, gray cloud 
looms overhead: shadow
inescapable

Breeze [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Gölkənarı Gəzinti Parkı, facing toward the Heydar Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
reeds bend and rebound
to breezes unnoticed
in the city.

Nature DGAF [Haiku]

Photograph of bitterweed around a grave in a cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wildflowers grow
around an unattended grave;
pooped on by birds.

Between Rains [Senryū]

Photograph of wildflowers atop South Mountain near Gyeongju, South Korea.
wildflowers warm soul
as step into puddle chills
the whole body.