Tempest clouds the sky
and drowns the valley in floods,
then sun shines brightly.
Posted for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth
Photo: ©2015 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved
Haiku: ©2016 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved
Twilight falls slowly:
shadows lengthening on leaves,
green fading to night.
*Sorry, I just realized I published the unedited version of my haiku in the first instance of posting. (Yikes!) This is the final version.
Posted for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light
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Haiku @2016 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved
Clear path meanders
through bleakness to storms afield,
whose gray consumes all
but a bantam blue patch, veiled
beyond sight in the corner.
Posted and inspired by the Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol
©2015 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved
Open it
and
walk through,
to lands
beyond
yours,
and you’ll see
narrow
confines
widen
to horizons
beyond imagining,
whether by travel
or pages unravelled.
Open it. Walk through.
Posted for the Weekly Challenge: Door
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Once, I thought the desert barren,
a lifeless, stagnant place
of no particular beauty or worth,
but as the years roll by,
and I, too, approach a desert
solely mine,
I find, to my delight, an oasis
of bittersweet contradictions:
life in constant motion,
whose sandy floor bears footprints
just as easily erased
as they were stamped on my soul
by eager visitors.
Posted for NaPoWriMo
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I took for granted
this incredible vantage
until it was seen
only in dreams,
a monochrome
of my once colorful home,
so I zealously steep
this view inside – deep –
guarding against the day,
hopefully far enough away,
when only faded memories float by
like empty clouds in the sky.
Posted for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat and NaPoWriMo
©2015 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved
When the Door Closes 