Missed

photo of a canopy of bright pink flowers and yellowish green leaves overhead, as seen from below

Flowers overhead,
blossoming into rainbows—
we look down at phones.

Evolution

Panoramic photo of a lemon scented gum tree and a small fig tree growing at its base, leading towards a crack in the gum’s trunk. — A young fig tree growing alongside an established gumtree

A sign of great growth:
playing host for a new life;
old becomes mature.

Rising

Photo of the early morning rays of sunshine behind a row of gumtrees.

Climbs every mountain,
peers over back yards and trees;
model hiker: sun.

Racy

Self-defeating race,
as humans with their rat lives—
clouds chase each other.

Memory

close up photo of a pair of doctorative Christmas bells hanging on a Norfolk Island pine tree

Rusty old Christmas:
bells hanging on grandpa’s pine,
in his memory.