DAILY PHOTO: Ta Prohm Strangler
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Category Archives: outdoors
Vertigo Green [Haibun]
Life overtakes all. Moss coats stone; vines smother shrubs; trees straddle walls. All growing in splotched patterns of green -- a million shapes of leaf in a million subtly different shades. My world is awash in green. My mind is soothed by deep greens, and fired by the bright light-greens of fresh growth. My periphery swirls and blurs with green. a mossy stone becomes my focal point, the fringe blurs
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The Tree of Now [Haibun]
One tree stands in the temple yard, slanting but stable, its bare limbs lazily spiral skyward. Its trunk is gnarled and its branches are twisted and it makes the old ruins around it look modern by comparison. The trunk radiates hardness, a strength from deformation, like the sinewy limbs of a laborer whose muscles are held in constant tension, until they can no longer know suppleness. Seekers of shade and enlightenment once sought its shadow, but now it can only offer a good example. leafless tree -- sitting in the temple yard, luring Buddhas
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City Reclaimed [Haiku]
moss & plants grow on the volcanic rock wall; nature reclaims
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Gravity-free Tree [Tanka]
growing upward, the tree turns ninety degrees, reaching sideways three times its height - i jump to check gravity
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River Meets Sea [Tanka]
wide mouth river, its chocolate-colored waters smashed by breakers / the battle is ceaseless; no winner is declared
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Looming Clouds [Haiku]
Lone Tree [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Mahaweli River
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Blazing Bright Duel [Haiku]
flowers in saffron, their faces to the sun - rivals in brightness
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