Foggy Morning [Senryū]

foggy morning:
a figure approaches...
nope, just a shrub!

River Drift [Haiku]

shapes shift on
metal waters until
darkness wins.

Death Denied [Haiku]

a dead tree
swallowed by creepers
greens from base up.

The Avian Unseen [Haiku]

sunup:
roosters crow, birds chirp -
all unseen.

DAILY PHOTO: Adrift on the Nam Song

Guileless Hibiscus [Free Verse]

translucent hibiscus:
keeps its secrets
in its folds;
anywhere petals
don't double over,
the light shines through.

hanging face down --
pistil dangling --
pockets emptied by
gravity.

the jungle beyond blurs.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Contour

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Sunfall [Haiku]

mountain sunfall:
vivid tree afore; painted
backdrop behind.

Karst [Free Verse]

Dissolving mountains.

Craggy & rugged outside.
Stone pock-marked & pitted,
Deformed natural bonsai
growing out of the cliff.

Hollow on the inside.
Amorphous caves tunnel
under those rocky tops,
Smooth lumpy cave floors
and walls,
Rough & gritty stalactites
overhead.

How long does it take to dissolve
a mountain?

Gnarled [Free Verse]

Mostly, the dead decay:
they crumble
or rot to goo.

But some trees
turn steely
hard & smooth --
fibers showing like
rigid sinews.

Bare of bark and leaves
and flowers,
but unyielding of
girth and substance.

But even those trees
give way --
perhaps in geologic time
rather than biologic time,

But still the tree will become
someone & something else.