"the trees are green!"
except when blue, white, or black:
in morning sun,
in peak sun, in moonlight,
under dense clouds, or no clouds.
Evergreen? [Tanka]
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Category Archives: nature
Monkey Insight [Kyōka]
langur in a tree
remains still as others flee;
it seems to know
my limitations as well as
its own capabilities.
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Foggy Stream [Lyric]
A thick cloud nestled into the
valley down below,
I wonder if the forager
in that streambed knows
that it's sunny above.
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DAILY PHOTO: Mussoorie Monkeys
“Afternoon on a Hill” by Edna St. Vincent Millay [w/ Audio]
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
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Weightless [Haiku]
a heron stands tall
at the branch’s end,
as if weightless.
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Stone Ghost [Haiku]
the clouds retreat,
revealing hilltop ruins:
a ghost in stone.
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Staggering [Haiku]
hill slope trees
like staggering figures:
soon swallowed in fog.
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Right-Side-Down [Haiku]
the butterfly
knows no upside-down, only
where the flowers are.
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Nature Reclaims [Lyric Poem]
All it takes is one thin crack, and
A fine flurry of blowing seed.
And nature takes back all that land --
Wall-to-wall with growing weeds.
