sunup:
roosters crow, birds chirp -
all unseen.
The Avian Unseen [Haiku]
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Category Archives: nature
DAILY PHOTO: Adrift on the Nam Song
Guileless Hibiscus [Free Verse]
translucent hibiscus:
keeps its secrets
in its folds;
anywhere petals
don't double over,
the light shines through.
hanging face down --
pistil dangling --
pockets emptied by
gravity.
the jungle beyond blurs.
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Sunfall [Haiku]
mountain sunfall:
vivid tree afore; painted
backdrop behind.
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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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