Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

sound in tall grass:
 it’s probably nothing.
  yet, primal fear shot

rose garden.
 last time, decapitated;
  now, in full bloom

a creature unknown
 splashes in the lotus pond —
  kerplunk! kerplunk!

peahen treads softly
to avoid scaring insects.
people plod around,
taking the bird's picture.
the peahen thinks, "Really!"

the moon is up;
yet the sun is not yet down:
scheduling fail!

beached pufferfish.
better we meet 
on my turf

moon gazing.
 priests and prostitutes
  look to the same orb

the overnight train.
 foggy mind / sleep deprived:
  sunrise sky painting

the turtle 
 moves slowly; i wonder
  if it sees slowly?

the spider looked thin,
 but - given its limb-span -
  that's little comfort