DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Contour

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Winter Fields [Haiku]

tawny grain stalks,
unkempt, like mussed hair;
a bird flies out.

Sunfall [Haiku]

mountain sunfall:
vivid tree afore; painted
backdrop behind.

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?

DAILY PHOTO: Views of the Nam Song

Shapeshifter [Haiku]

light & shadow play
across the mountains —
redrawing ridges.

DAILY PHOTO: Buddha Park, Vientiane

DAILY PHOTO: Lake Reflections

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.