Category Archives: nature

DAILY PHOTO: Forest Temple at Pai Bamboo Bridge

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Photograph taken from the Bamboo Bridge outside of Pai, Thailand.

Cold Creek [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near the start of the Mae Yen Waterfall trek at Pai, Thailand. 
butterflies dance
 beside a cold creek, 
  near sun-warmed leaves.

Gust [Haiku]

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Photograph taken at Pai Canyon near Pai, Thailand.
Autumn gust
 sends leaf fluttering --
  cat paws at it.

Great Wide Darkness [Haiku]

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Photograph of the north bay of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. Taken from Viewpoint 3.
Sun is low;
 boat leaves the bay's shelter,
  creeping toward darkness.

Beach Sweep [Haiku]

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lapping waves
 deposit lines of debris, 
  but not so tidily.

Queen of Stone [Haiku]

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Haiku poem about "Queen's Head," a naturally occurring rock formation that looks like a graceful lady's neck and head (located in Yehliu Geologic Park.)
slender-necked beauty
 that nature carved from rock...
  -- doomed!

Patience [Senryū]

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Photograph of an Orb Weaver spider taken in Taroko Gorge, Taiwan.
Spider builds its web 
 line by line, and then waits;
  I watch for two minutes.

Spring [Haiku]

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Nature writes “Spring”
 in colorful blooms, even 
  over rough bark.

DAILY PHOTO: A Cloud in the Sky

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River Boulders [Haiku]

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Photograph of a green pool surrounded by boulders in Taiwan's Taroko Gorge.
boulder-strewn gorge:
 what ancient waters could move
  what now can't be budged?