Category Archives: plants

DAILY PHOTO: Closeups of Earth

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Photograph of lesser smoothcap moss and prickly pear in Arabia Mountain Park of Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of Pineweed growing up through the cracks at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of pools in the granite at Arabia Mountain Park in Stonecrest, DeKalb County, Georgia.
Photograph of a long stemmed mushroom growing through the leaf litter in Stone Mountain Park.

Poison Ivy [Lyric Poem]

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Poison Ivy, I think you know
 that you will always be my foe.

I can slice your vine, pal-o-mine,
 and still end slathered in calamine.

Because I must haul your corpse away,
 and on my gloves your oils will stay —
 waiting that unexpecting day
 when I scratch some tender bit.

DAILY PHOTO: Blossoms After the Harvest

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Photograph of a farm on the outskirts of Pai, Thailand -- post rice harvest but with blossoming trees.

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.