Cheetah Speed [Lyric Poem]

Photograph of a Cheetah taken at the Mysore Zoo in Karnataka, India.
Swiftly sprints the slender Cheetah,
running smoothly as Velveeta.
But right now it can't rouse its feet-ah,
and slogs just like a Walmart Greet-ah.

Meerkat Lecture [Lyric Poem]

Meerkats: Taken at the Mysore Zoo in Karnataka, India.
Please allow me a conjecture:
One Meerkat stood to give lecture,
But as with me, as a pupil,
Other Meerkats lacked the scruple
To make a show of listening,
Finding the walls more interesting.

Mountain Dance [Senryū]

Photograph taken near George Everest Peak, outside of Mussoorie, India.
in the mountains:
vivid & invisible
are dance partners.

Mountain Road [Common Meter]

Photograph taken on Lal Tibba Road in Mussoorie, Uttrakhand, India.
The mountain road is sometimes flat,
but it's not ever straight.
It winds through woods -- so deep and dark --
but where spotlights await.

Mimicry [Senryū]

Gray (Hanuman) Langur on a road barrier on the Lal Tibba Road.
Hanuman Langur
mimics a lounging housecat;
then paws at nothing.

Flurry [Haiku]

fine powdery snow
fills ground around grass:
frigid Winter day.

Fake Snow,Real Cold [Haiku]

fake snow from
fountain spray in wind;
the cold is real.

Solo? [Haiku]

Photograph of an egret flying over the Gomti River in Lucknow, Madhya Pradesh, India.
solo bird flies
over sprawling waters
with upside down mate.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

Photograph of Vang Vieng, Laos at sundown.
pale orange skies
over dark silhouetted
shadowlands.

Angry Skies [Haiku]

Taken in Luang Namtha in Northern Laos, near the border with China.
orange-fringed
dark clouds drift in blue skies
just before dusk.