DAILY PHOTO: Changdeokgung Secret Garden

Solitary [Haiku]

solitary flower
bows in a Spring breeze --
then stands upright.

“We should not mind so small a flower” by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

We should not mind so small a flower 
Except it quiet bring
Our little garden that we lost
Back to the Lawn again -

So spicy her Carnations nod -
So drunken, reel her Bees -
So silver, steal a hundred flutes
From out a hundred trees -

That whoso sees this little flower
By faith, may clear behold
The Bobolinks around the throne
And Dandelions gold.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kowloon Walled City Park

DAILY PHOTO: Cheonggyecheon

DAILY PHOTO: Busan Citizens Park Pavilion

“A sepal, petal, and a thorn” (19) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]

A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn --
A flask of Dew -- A Bee or two --
A Breeze -- a caper in the trees --
And I'm a Rose!

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Xieng Khuan [Buddha Park]

Pansy Patch [Haiku]

pansy patch:
rabbit noses out,
sniffing air.

Fearful Flowers? [Senryū]

stunted flowers:
in fear of mower
decapitation?