The Futility of War [Haiku]

two young gazelles
 lock horns and head-wrestle, 
  then quit and move on.

Out of Joint [Blank Verse Sonnet]

My days are out of joint and shuffled up,
 and memories are pictures cast upon
  the floor, and rummaged through 'til chaos reigns, 
 and I pick random recollections out
  of all the events ever to transpire.

They seem no more my life than another's:
 a glance, a glimpse, a blank firing of mind,
 a wicked hope that truth will come to me.

But all I see are monochrome mindscapes
 that could've been wrenched out of another mind,
  or made from AI's collage artistry
 to serve some distant master's deep wish to
  learn what hot-injected time does to a soul,
  and if shuffled scene stacks can make one whole?

Spiral Ginger [Haiku]

ginger blossom
 looks cleaner before
  the rain.

Big Red Bug [Haiku]

the big red bug
 attracts attention 
  it doesn’t want.

Mimicry [Haiku]

dead roots:
sinuous as a river,
luxuriant as hair.

Geometric Lock [Haiku]

hazy morning.
 my bleary eye and tired mind
  locks on a Kolam.

Bat Signal [Haiku]

dusk has come.
 bats head out to hunt.
  black against dark sky.

Lonely Donkey [Senryū]

solo donkey:
 so lonely that it might
  be human with us. 

Safety Geese [Senryū]

foraging geese,
 with heads down, honk to 
  prevent collision.