agile songbird
sticks awkward landing --
in a thicket.
Songbird [Haiku]
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Category Archives: nature
Roadside [Haiku]
roadside tree
shakes with each passing truck,
but no blooms fall.
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Elephant’s Eye [Haiku]
crops hide the farmhouse,
but can't conceal distant mountains.
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Jungle Spotlight [Haiku]
butterfly on the jungle floor,
warmed by a shaft of light.
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Quiet [Haiku]
pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.
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Wetland [Haiku]
narrow channel,
waving reeds on each side,
boat glides blindly through.
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Orbits [Haiku]
spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.
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DAILY PHOTO: A Green & Stony Hill, Mussoorie
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“Night Travels” by Du Fu [w/ Audio]
Slender grass waves in a light breeze;
Tall-masted boat rocks in the night.
Stars hang low, over the vast plain;
The river moon struggles for height.
I'll never gain fame by the brush --
Too old for civil service posts...
Wading, wading, what am I like?
A sandpiper on the mud coast!
The original in Chinese (Title: 旅夜書懷):
細草微風岸，
危檣獨夜舟。
星垂平野闊，
月湧大江流。
名豈文章著，
官應老病休。
飄飄何所似，
天地一沙鷗。
This is Poem 113 of “Three Hundred Tang Poems,” i.e. 唐诗三百首
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Gust [Haiku]
gusting Spring winds:
can the hunkered crow
take to flight?
Tiger Riding for Beginners 