DAILY PHOTO: Kuang Si Waterfall

Moth Flight [Haiku]

moth falls off wall,
pulls up erratically, &
struggles for altitude.

The Big Drift [Haiku]

downriver drift;
ferries & fisherman cross
without collision.

Cave-Framed [Senryū]

my cave view:
fields and buildings;
what did cavemen see?

Land at Rest [Haiku]

the land rests
after the harvest;
birds feed on remnants.

Bone Cold [Haiku]

milky moonlight
pulls heat from bone:
winter night.

Hilltop Temple [Haiku]

hilltop temple
comes into view
to a crow CAW!

Coiled [Haiku]

neck coiled,
egret hovers stock still
to snap up a fish.

High Seas [Free Verse]

Rolling boat
on roiling seas:
heaving and creaking
&
pitching and listing --
Decks shifting between
untenable states,
Crew tying in,
tethering to what might
become the anchor around
their collective necks,
pulling them all to the depths -
'til the last bubble spills
upward from a nostril.

“To a Marsh Hawk in Spring” by Henry David Thoreau [w/ Audio]

There is health in thy gray wing,
Health of nature's furnishing.
Say, thou modern-winged antique,
Was thy mistress ever sick?
In each heaving of thy wing
Thou dost health and leisure bring,
Thou dost waive disease and pain
And resume new life again.