DAILY PHOTO: Flowers in Lalbagh Garden
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Category Archives: plants
World Tree [Haiku]
white silk-cotton tree,
sinuously sprawling —-
chaining earth to sky.
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Bamboo Thicket [Haiku]
a copse of bamboo
shades the mossy creek rocks,
deepening their green.
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Steam Treatment [Haiku]
the tree that reaches
over the hot spring-fed pond
thrives on steam treatment.
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Fluid Stillness [Haiku]
the flower bobs
on its long, stiff stem.
the sage is unmoved.
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DAILY PHOTO: 2024 Republic Day Flower Show, Lalbagh
Moody Sunflower [Haiku]
the sunflower
that bows its head in the sun
feels pensive.
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Bonsai Bluff [Free Verse]
green-topped granite.
a gnarled evergreen
clings to the side --
clings without clinging,
effortlessly jutting out
over the chasm
to feel the sun & wind.
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Bougainvillea Greetings [Tanka]
bougainvilleas
beside the grand temple steps
have dropped petals,
but it seems the gardners
never let them hit the ground.
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Urban Jungle [Kyōka]
in a city park,
muscular baobabs &
wiry strangler figs
provide residences
for the fierce squirrels.
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