Great Wide Darkness [Haiku]

Photograph of the north bay of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. Taken from Viewpoint 3.
Sun is low;
boat leaves the bay's shelter,
creeping toward darkness.

DAILY PHOTO: Chobe River Sunset

Image

Photograph of a sunset taken from the Botswanan bank of the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park.

Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]

Photograph taken at days end atop Gudibande Fort Hill in Karnataka, India.
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.

The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.

The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.

My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

Photograph of Vang Vieng, Laos at sundown.
pale orange skies
over dark silhouetted
shadowlands.

DAILY PHOTO: Sky Fire

Light Fringed [Haiku]

Setting sun over Rudrasagar Lake in Melaghar at the Neermahal Palace fringes clouds with sunlight.
light-fringed clouds
rob a stately palace
of its splendor.

Dark Delta [Haiku]

sun sets upon
the river delta:
then pitch black night.

Sky Fire [Haiku]

sunset flames,
glowing like hot coals;
cools to darkness.

“Sundown” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [w/ Audio]

The summer sun is sinking low;
Only the tree-tops redden and glow:
Only the weathercock on the spire
Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire;
All is in shadow below.

O beautiful, awful summer day,
What hast thou given, what taken away?
Life and death, and love and hate,
Homes made happy or desolate,
Hearts made sad or gay!

On the road of life one mile-stone more!
In the book of life one leaf turned o'er!
Like a red seal is the setting sun
On the good and the evil men have done,--
Naught can to-day restore!