Category Archives: nature

DAILY PHOTO: Mountains, Green & Snowcapped

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A photograph of a green hill loomed over by Mount Kazbek in Gergeti / Stepantsminda, Republic of Georgia.

Winter Marsh [Haiku]

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Photograph taken along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, Georgia.
light sparkles 
 on shallow water:
  winter marshland.

Winter Blossoms [Senryū]

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Photograph of pink blossoms in Winter. Taken from the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA in early February.
Winter plum blossoms
  try to trick mind and eye;
   cold fingers won't buy.

DAILY PHOTO: Big Creek Greenway Wildlife

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White-Tailed Deer taken in Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, GA.
Eastern Gray Squirrel eating an acorn along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, GA.
A male / female pair of Hooded Merganser Ducks taken on the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA.

Spring Cascade [Haiku]

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Photograph of Shaki Waterfall in Armenia. Taken during the Spring.
Spring waterfall
 grows by the day as ice --
  somewhere -- shrinks.

False Heralds [Tanka]

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Photograph of Tbilisi, Georgia in the Spring with wildflowers in the fore and city as backdrop.
city landscapers
 find year-round blooms for planters,
  but I'll await
   the wildflowers that grow 
   way up on the hillside.

Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken at days end atop Gudibande Fort Hill in Karnataka, India.
The light of day's end
   brings out the sandy
       grit of the arid
           landscape.

The light of day's end
   matches & compounds
        the color of the 
           desiccated vegetation. 

The light of day's end
    turns the world 
        into someplace new --
    somewhere I've never
        been before.

My body knows this is 
    nothing like Mars;
        my mind does not.

Gray Beard [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, in bayou near Slidell, Louisiana.
Spanish Moss drapes
 over Winter's bare branches
  like a gray beard.

Stump Gator [Kyōka]

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Photograph of a young alligator resting on a stump in the Louisiana bayou, near Slidell.
Gator rests on stump.
 but my mind cannot rest.
  it's not "gator"
 and "stump" in the same place,
 but in the same sentence.

Common Box Turtle [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph of a Common Box Turtle taken in the Bayou near Slidell, Louisiana. 
"The race is to steady turtles!" --
   Even if the race has hurdles?
 Even with its great longevity
   it'll never have lift or levity
   to finish before life runs out.

Hold off with race applications.
   Is racer your ideal vocation?
 I don't mean to be Sower of doubt,
   but think speed isn't what you're about,
   and that you'd make a fine doorstop.