Dripping Blossom [Haiku]

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

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

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

Between Rains [Senryū]

Photograph of wildflowers atop South Mountain near Gyeongju, South Korea.
wildflowers warm soul
as step into puddle chills
the whole body.

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
buffeted by wind
& large raindrops

Under the Bridge [Haiku]

Monochrome photograph of a bridge taken in Taipei, Taiwan on a cloudy day.
under the bridge
rain's chaos doesn't vanish:
ripples spread; drips plop.

Stoic Tears [Haiku]

Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda  Hill in Karnataka, India.
buffeted by wind --
hunched & leaning windward,
stoic tears roll.

Dark Advance [Haiku]

Photograph taken on Victoria Harbour (from the Star Ferry) on a rainy day in Hong Kong.
rain clouds advance:
an army that won't stop to
besiege the city.

Vanish [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Mussoorie, India: Woman in brightly colored attire hauls forage for cattle on a rainy day.
brightly-attired
forage-hauling woman
vanishes in fog.

Spring Swerve [Free Verse]

Photograph taken at Jvari Pass in the Republic of Georgia as a rain cloud works up the valley. The previous day, it had snowed.
Spring can swerve.

White patches,
holdouts from yesterday's snow,
are melted by today's rains.

Buds no sooner form
than are encased in ice.

No self-respecting Summer
day could bring snow.

Winter won't hatch
a butterfly.

Autumn can't turn
a red leaf back to green.

But Spring can swerve.

Play Mind [Common Meter]

Photograph of a sculpture called "Imagination" in Vardanians' Park in Yerevan, Armenia.
What is this cloud above my head
on such a sunny day?
You may think it foreshadows rain.
I think that it brings play.