White-Out [Free Verse]

snow falls
 all night long,
 silently piling.

i awaken
 to a place
unrecognizable
 as the one
in which i took to slumber:

the world's detail erased...
 temporarily.

Marching Macaques [Haiku]

macaques on the march:
lockstep / shoulder-to-shoulder;
 a crash in the trees.

“Bright Star” by John Keats [w/ Audio]

Source: NASA
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art --
 Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
 Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
 Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
 Of snow upon the mountains and the moors --
No -- yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
 Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
 Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
 Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
 And so live ever -- or else swoon to death.

Dramatic Entrance [Haiku]

an egret flares
to a dramatic landing
in a sunny grass patch.

Muscular [Haiku]

a muscular tree
poses with limbs outstretched;
shrubs are unimpressed.

Braided Roots [Haiku]

twisted root piles
stretch across the walkway,
reaching like amoeba.

Blue Water [Haiku]

deep in winter,
the blue water makes it
Caribbean summer.

Yin & Yang [Haiku]

the sunny side
of the mountain falls into
a cloud’s shadow.

Last Hangers On [Haiku]

the last few leaves 
tenaciously hang on
into mid-winter.

Hidden Ridges [Haiku]

even the small mountains
hide their tops in the clouds:
rainy winter day.