Oh, cheerful face!
How dare you be so defiant
as to smile on a cloudy day,
and that you dreamed of more,
is a preposterous venture!
But, what was that?
You’ve bloomed,
here,
mid-December,
and proved us all wrong!
Nature
Clouds abound
A face formed in the sky
Above a season of stillness
Even the trees wept
With hollow cries
From decrepit leaves
Only the solstice
Could breathe fresh life
Into the eyes of the sky
In the royal garden
I hear a rhapsody,
of god’s voice
in the hum
of the afternoon cicada
I see the reflection
of a vast sky
and a vaster god
in the lotus pond
A house in the forest
A house
bathed in green
taken under
by a forest
full of ire.
A house bathed green
left to the devices
of wood nymphs,
falling piece by piece
to the hungry jungle floor.
Dragonfly in Beijing Old Summer Palace
Morning glories in the Upper Peninsula
Soft white and pink morning glories say hello to the day
Tahquamenon falls
Rootbeer brown water cascades over the Tahquamenon Falls in Paradise, Michigan.
Passionflower at Finca Pasiflora
The hallmark of Finca Pasiflora
Yellow hibiscus
The geometry of flowers amazes and inspires.
Michigan Meadows
A late summer meadow in northern Michigan.
A Poetic Voyage 