Flowering Cane [Haiku]

sugarcane waves
with the passing of cars:
silver tassels mussed.

DAILY PHOTO: Cauvery River

The Langur Family [Haiku]

a troop of langurs:
 five monkeys doing five things
  as one family.

DAILY PHOTO: From Hilltop to Hilltop

Growing in Stone [Haiku]

from old stone ruins
grow hardy weeds, raising
flowery heads skyward.

DAILY PHOTO: Minchukallu Betta

Waking to Snow [Haiku]

first snowy morn.
 the only signs of life:
  plodding footprints.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats [w/ Audio]

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
   And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
 Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
   And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
   Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
 There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
   And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
   I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
 While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
   I hear it in the deep heart's core. 

Glass River [Haiku]

the flowing river
looks still as glass, until
fallen leaf ripples.