Fish Drift Relativity [Haiku]

"the fish's world
 is always in drift,"
  thinks I, from the bank.

DAILY PHOTO: Frankfurt Skyline

DAILY PHOTO: Animals on the Chobe Banks

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Over the River [Haiku]

from the bank,
 i watch the river flow,
  awed by what it's known

The Churn [Free Verse]

The water churns --
   no smooth laminar flow.

Each molecule fights its way
   down the mountain. 

Sloshing up into evaporation, or
    dragged, swirling, across 
     the rocky bottom.

This is no mighty, muddy river
    in a gentle glide.

It's pretty chaos;
    just the kind I'm used to.

Winter River [Haiku]

winter sky mixes:
 thick clouds, thin clouds, no clouds.
  light dances, briefly.

The Mountain has Fists [Free Verse]

The mountain feels like it flows
 as much as the river that sits beside
  (or more so -- i.e. more smoothly.)

The contours of a half-buried fist --
 rounded knuckles and fingerbones --
 sit in the mountainside,
 as if jutting out of sand,
  but soft & green.

It looks like the whole hand could lift
 out of that mountainous topography,
 and flick away the buildings on the bank,
 or pluck canoes out of the river.
 (But now the water is too low and chaotic
 for any craft to pass.)

So, maybe the ancient mountain monster
 will just put up its dukes to the world,
 shaking that great, green, soft fist. 

DAILY PHOTO: Ruins by the River, Pune

Taken in March of 2023 in Pune

Unimpressed [Tanka]

a stately building
 stands beside the river,
  commanding the eye.
 but that ancient river
  remains unimpressed.  

Unhindered [Haiku]

fall leaves will drop,
 and the winter river view
  will be unhindered.