Turtle Hills [Haiku]

hills line
the water's edge
like sunning turtles.

Be Water [Free Verse]

The floating feather
that eludes my grasp
isn't haughty or gleeful.

It just rolls, slips, glides,
and is gone.

DAILY PHOTO: Kuang Si Waterfall

High Seas [Free Verse]

Rolling boat
on roiling seas:
heaving and creaking
&
pitching and listing --
Decks shifting between
untenable states,
Crew tying in,
tethering to what might
become the anchor around
their collective necks,
pulling them all to the depths -
'til the last bubble spills
upward from a nostril.

Mirror World [Free Verse]

Right-side-up or upside-down?

The flooded country becomes
a mirror world.

I spin in float
on a coracle boat --
mind fuzzy,
orientation unclear.

I feel I could flip,
and not take a dip,
but be righted
upside-down,
in the world beyond.

DAILY PHOTO: Nam Dee Waterfall, Luang Namtha

DAILY PHOTO: Boats on the Mekong

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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kuang Si Falls

DAILY PHOTO: Sunning Croc

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Cold River [Haiku]

goose at water's edge:
cold river flows around
unmoving legs.