DAILY PHOTO: Burial Mounds of Gyeongju

Two Trails [Senryū]

two rivers converge.
two trails diverge.
I flip a coin.

Temple Mural [Tanka]

a temple mural
shows monk and novice
admiring Fall leaves,
as I admire the mural -
surrounded by Spring green.

Transitory [Haiku]

butterfly lands
on flower, pumps wings twice,
and sputters off.

Autumn Moon [Haiku]

a single branch,
leafless but bloom-laden,
against the Autumn moon.

Hermit Hut [Haiku]

a hermit-hut hides
on the cloud-enshrouded peak
two valleys away.

Rain Dance [Haiku]

ripples dance
on a flooded paddy
as rain starts, slowly.

Gen Z Stare? [Senryū]

perched magpie
stares into the distance.
gen z? perhaps.

DAILY PHOTO: Rainy Day Busan

“To a Butterfly” by William Wordsworth [w/ Audio]

Stay near me—do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in Thee,
Historian of my Infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart,
My Father's Family!

Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,
The time, when in our childish plays
My sister Emmeline and I
Together chased the Butterfly!
A very hunter did I rush
Upon the prey:—with leaps and springs
I follow'd on from brake to bush;
But She, God love her! feared to brush
The dust from off its wings.