mountain sunfall:
vivid tree afore; painted
backdrop behind.
Sunfall [Haiku]
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Karst [Free Verse]
Dissolving mountains.
Craggy & rugged outside.
Stone pock-marked & pitted,
Deformed natural bonsai
growing out of the cliff.
Hollow on the inside.
Amorphous caves tunnel
under those rocky tops,
Smooth lumpy cave floors
and walls,
Rough & gritty stalactites
overhead.
How long does it take to dissolve
a mountain?
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Gnarled [Free Verse]
Mostly, the dead decay:
they crumble
or rot to goo.
But some trees
turn steely
hard & smooth --
fibers showing like
rigid sinews.
Bare of bark and leaves
and flowers,
but unyielding of
girth and substance.
But even those trees
give way --
perhaps in geologic time
rather than biologic time,
But still the tree will become
someone & something else.
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Shapeshifter [Haiku]
light & shadow play
across the mountains —
redrawing ridges.
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Barbed-Wire Highway [Haiku]
barbed-wire strand:
a two-way ant highway,
around the pasture.
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Schrödinger’s Dragonfly [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Nam Dee Waterfall, Luang Namtha
“Song of the Open Road” (9 of 15) by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Allons! whoever you are come travel with
me!
Traveling with me you find what never tires.
The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible
at first, Nature is rude and
incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are
divine things well envelop'd,
I swear to you there are divine things more
beautiful than words can tell.
Allons! we must not stop here,
However sweet these laid-up stores, however
convenient this dwelling we cannot
remain here,
However shelter'd this port and however
calm these waters we must not anchor
here,
However welcome the hospitality that
surrounds us we are permitted to receive
it but a little while.
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Moonrise [Free Verse]
Moonrise --
big and bright --
over a quiet town.
People stare --
alone but simultaneously --
'til the milky light
hurts their eyes.
This moon reminds them
of one from childhood
but seems unlike so many since...
But it's all one moon.
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Gangly Sunflower [Haiku]
in an open field,
one sunflower towers,
its head drooping.
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