Category Archives: nature

Slow Burn [Senryū]

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Photograph of an overgrown scale model of Dutch Square. The model is located on Bukit Cina (Chinese Hill.)
bedraggled buildings:
 nature digests what it eats
  ever so slowly.

DAILY PHOTO: Palms & Mountains, Vang Vieng

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Photograph of a palm tree in the fore and karst mountains in the background. Taken outside Vang Vieng, Laos.
Photograph with Vang Vieng Village and a palm tree in the foreground, and karst mountains in the background.

Chinese Painting [Tanka]

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Photograph taken at sundown in Vang Vieng, Laos.
sunlight washes out
 the distant mountains; 
  they look like
 an old Chinese painting --
 ink faded with age.

Barbed Wire Highway [Senryū]

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Photograph of fire ants on a strand of barbed wire in the countryside near Vang Vieng, Laos.
fire ant highway
 on a barbed wire strand
  makes me itch.

DAILY PHOTO: Turquoise Waters of Kuang Si

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Photograph of bathers at Kuang Si waterfall in Ban Long, Laos.
Photograph of teal water at one of the terraced drop offs of Kuang Si waterfall in Laos.
Photograph of a cascade and turquoise pool at Kuang Si waterfall in Laos.
Photograph of rushing water and a teal pool at Kuang Si waterfall in Laos.

Mountain Azalea [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph of a cluster of pink Mountain Azalea with barren woods in the background. Taken on the Sawnee Mountain Trail in North Georgia.
One cluster of Mountain Azalea
   Stands out like royal regalia,
 Adorning a near naked vagrant --
    But much more pleasingly fragrant.

Blue Sky [Haiku]

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Photograph of bare trees and blue sky taken on the Sawnee Mountain Trail in North Georgia, near Cumming. 
blue sky
 seen through bare limbs;
  when will Spring arrive?

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes From the North Laos Countryside

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Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of farmland and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.

White [Lyric Poem]

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Against the bright white palace domes
   fluffy clouds seem a tad too much,
 and so they start to limp on home
   like a gimp beggar on his crutch.

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

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Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India. 
temple wall
 overgrown with weeds;
  idols kept pristine.