Spring Cascade [Haiku]

Photograph of Shaki Waterfall in Armenia. Taken during the Spring.
Spring waterfall
grows by the day as ice --
somewhere -- shrinks.

DAILY PHOTO: Noravank Monastery in Portrait Orientation

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A photograph of Armenia's Noravank Monastery taken in portrait orientation.

Dine & Move [Haiku]

A House Sparrow on a cobbled road near the Cascade Complex in Yerevan, Armenia.
sparrow finds food
among well-trod cobbles,
then flits into blur.

False Heralds [Tanka]

Photograph of Tbilisi, Georgia in the Spring with wildflowers in the fore and city as backdrop.
city landscapers
find year-round blooms for planters,
but I'll await
the wildflowers that grow
way up on the hillside.

Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]

Photograph taken at days end atop Gudibande Fort Hill in Karnataka, India.
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.

The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.

The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.

My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.

Gray Beard [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, in bayou near Slidell, Louisiana.
Spanish Moss drapes
over Winter's bare branches
like a gray beard.

A Walk in Winter Woods [Free Verse]

A photograph from the Roswell Greenway Trail in Roswell, Georgia, north of Atlanta.
In Winter,
when blue sky shows
between the twiggy,
bare branches,
the forest is not so
claustrophobic,
but sound and wind,
alike,
carry through.

A mind can roam
between the bracing
breezes.

DAILY PHOTO: River Shimmers

Photograph of the Chattahoochee River, shimmering in the Winter sunlight, taken from the Roswell Riverwalk.
Photograph of the Chattahoochee River taken on the Roswell Riverwalk Trail.

Great Blue Heron [Lyric Poem]

Photograph of a Great Blue Heron crossing a pond along the Roswell Greenway Trail in Roswell, Georgia.
Skittish is the Great Blue Heron.
It feels when you're stopped and starin'
and will crisscross water like Charon
to keep you on the other side.

DAILY PHOTO: Winter Woods