Bright, if Withered [Haiku]

withered daisies
approach season’s end,
but retain charm.

DAILY PHOTO: Puddle Atop Stone Mountain

DAILY PHOTO: Closeups of Earth

Photograph of lesser smoothcap moss and prickly pear in Arabia Mountain Park of Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of Pineweed growing up through the cracks at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of pools in the granite at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of a long stemmed mushroom growing through the leaf litter in Stone Mountain Park.

Banana Leaf Ant [Senryū]

an ant on a leaf seems small; 
on a banana leaf -- somehow -- big.

Poison Ivy [Lyric Poem]

Poison Ivy, I think you know
that you will always be my foe.

I can slice your vine, pal-o-mine,
and still end slathered in calamine.

Because I must haul your corpse away,
and on my gloves your oils will stay —
waiting that unexpecting day
when I scratch some tender bit.

Dripping Blossom [Haiku]

Photograph of a pink and orange flower taken in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
droplets drip 
from the bottom petal,
after the rain.

Depth Deception [Senryū]

Photograph of reeds and water plants taken in Vientiane, Laos.
reeds & water plants
look like you could walk among them.
you could -- waist deep.

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
before monsoon is now
green and waterlogged.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

hot patch of granite:
from any crack or cranny
something learns to grow.

DAILY PHOTO: Purple & Yellow

Image

Photograph of a purple petaled flower taken in the Singapore Changi Airport.