Category Archives: plants

Icarus Tree [Senryū]

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a dead tree
 stands above the living;
  it didn’t pace itself.

Paper Beats Rock [Senryū]

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sapling grows in boulder,
 splitting it in twain;
  paper does beat rock.

Mid-stream Tree [Senryū]

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Tree that sits mid-stream
 is not your average tree.
  Stillness amid flow?

Dripping Blossom [Haiku]

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Photograph of a pink and orange flower taken in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
droplets drip 
  from the bottom petal, 
   after the rain.

Depth Deception [Senryū]

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Photograph of reeds and water plants taken in Vientiane, Laos. 
reeds & water plants
 look like you could walk among them.
  you could -- waist deep.

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

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Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
 before monsoon is now
  green and waterlogged.

Nature DGAF [Haiku]

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Photograph of bitterweed around a grave in a cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wildflowers grow
 around an unattended grave;
  pooped on by birds.

Between Rains [Senryū]

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Photograph of wildflowers atop South Mountain near Gyeongju, South Korea.
wildflowers warm soul
 as step into puddle chills
  the whole body.

Fawn [Haiku]

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fawn rests
 beneath the big leaves
  of new saplings

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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hot patch of granite:
 from any crack or cranny
  something learns to grow.