Livestock Rush Hour [Haiku]

horde of livestock 
sprawls puddle-strewn lane
between downpours.

Spring Wildflowers [Haiku]

Spring wildflowers
 cluster among the rocks; 
  sheep bells clang nearby.

“Anguish” [Haiku]

“Anguish” by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck (1878)
mother bleats a cloud,
standing over its dead lamb --
ringed by a murder 

Road Flock [Tanka]

cowbells clang,
the bleating flock trots up
a dusty road;
the rising dust plume
seen before the goats

DAILY PHOTO: Livestock on the Range

Taken in July of 2019 in Karakol National Park

DAILY PHOTO: A Sheep in Human’s Clothing [See What I Did There?]

Taken in Jaipur in November of 2015

Taken in Jaipur in November of 2015

 

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DAILY PHOTO: Campsite Sheep-nanigans

Taken in July of 2016 in Kashmir

Taken in July of 2016 in Kashmir

 

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On our Great Lakes of Kashmir trek this past summer, one night our campsite was across the creek from a maximum security sheep prison. I kid you not. At all hours of the night, beams of light would cut through our tent as roving guards made their rounds. And there was the occasional shrill whistle when the inmates would get out of line.