old pond, a frog jumps: "plop-splash!"
Original: 古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音; Romanized: furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto
furu ike ya [Old Pond] by Matsuo Bashō
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Category Archives: nature
Octopus [Free Verse]
Eight arms
seeking eight
different states
of being.
Winding sinuously
toward eight
different ends.
Wrapping opposing
limbs around
antipodal objectives,
it risks tearing
itself in twain…
but knows better.
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First to Fall [Haiku]
by the green river,
one tree prematurely
takes Fall colors.
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Fungi Art [Haiku]
Depreciation [Tanka]
in the morning, a fresh blanket of snow makes the world look new. by day's end, it's well-trodden: a car driven off the lot.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Sundarbans
Spring Wildflowers [Haiku]
Spring wildflowers cluster among the rocks; sheep bells clang nearby.
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Losers, Finders; Nester’s Blinders [Sonnet]
I ventured beyond civilization, and (by man's definition) I was lost. I knew no near city, state, or nation. Who knows what backwoods borders I'd crossed? I'd drifted down streams: still and rapid tossed, and when boat filled faster than I could bale, I took to foot. Onward at any cost! I passed over mountains and through their vales, and trudged the badlands, unparted by trails. But he who's lost is often he who finds, and I learned history's forfeit details in form of ruins in a sheltered blind. Oh! What novel and beautiful sights are had by lost souls in eternal nights!
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Asphalt Fault [Haiku]
a road parts the woods, one lane splits up nature... or does it?
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Bee-Eater [Senryū]
bee-eater sits still -- not searching, not flitting: worried of bee's plight?
Tiger Riding for Beginners 