Patience [Senryū]

Photograph of an Orb Weaver spider taken in Taroko Gorge, Taiwan.
Spider builds its web 
line by line, and then waits;
I watch for two minutes.

Wind Snitch [Free Verse]

Photograph of a wind turbine under blue skies. Taken along the highway between Budapest and Vienna.
The straight-stemmed turbines
are tattletales,
telling all about the stealthy
thief sneaking overhead.

With no clouds in the sky,
the wind could slip
out over the treetops,
and no one would know.

But the turbines turn,
slow as Taiji titans,
letting no movement
go untaxed.

Baby Monkey Wisdom [Kyōka]

Photograph of a baby Macaque taken at Gudibande Fort in the Chikkaballapur District of Karnataka, India.
the fixed boulder
makes great shelter;
rolling boulders
make monkey paste:
how do baby monkeys know?

False Water [Haiku]

river reflections
tell a tale of still water.
They lie!

Great Mormon [Haiku]

Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]
Great Mormon
flaps its wings spastically,
yet hovers in place.

Twilight River [Haiku]

at twilight,
the glassy river
pretends stillness.

Summer Fluff [Haiku]

gone to fluff:
flowers quietly await a
good, stiff breeze.

Fish Wu Wei [Haiku]

in flowing water,
fish trio effortlessly
remains in place.

After Autumn Rain [Haiku]

pavement glistens;
yellow leaves sodden:
nothing moves... but drips.

Stillness [Haiku]

sage sits on stone
until he and the stone
can’t be told apart.