Category Archives: nature

Understory [Haiku]

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big-leafed saplings
 line the understory:
  wee cascade murmurs.

DAILY PHOTO: Zambezi River Afternoon

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Photograph of the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe as the sun is getting low.

Safari Guide Limerick

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Photograph of a female lion taken in Chobe National Park in Botswana.
There was a cocky safari guide
  who - of lions - was often quite snide.
    He frequently stated
    they were overrated,
  but his view was different from inside.

DAILY PHOTO: Angry Adolescent Tusker

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Photograph of an aggressive adolescent elephant in Botswana's Chobe National Park.
Photograph of a posturing young tusker near the Chobe River's edge in Botswana.

Felonious Fig [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a Strangler Fig straddling a stone wall -- taken at Ta Prom, Angkor, Cambodia.
I thought I caught a fig tree,
  escaping over a stone wall,
 but when I turned my attention 
  upon it, it stayed so very still.

Grazing Deer [Senryū]

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grazing deer
 pays hikers no heed:
  too noisy for threat.

DAILY PHOTO: Volcano Morning

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Photograph of Puncak Gunung Agung volcano taken from Ahmed Beach on the east coast of Bali.

Crow Mind [Kyōka]

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Photograph of a crow atop an outdoor lighting fixture at Tokyo's Imperial Palace.
crow on lamppost 
 contemplates a CAW!
  but is silenced
 by a morsel clamped
 in its beak.

DAILY PHOTO: A Gray Lake

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Photograph of Big Almaty Lake (Үлкен Алматы көлі) near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The lakes color changes over the course of the year. Here it is a sediment loaded gray color.

Little Blue [Haiku]

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Photograph of a blue Chicory flower, taken near Kolsay Lake in Kazakhstan.
from a gliding boat,
 a little blue flower spied
  as all else blurs.