old stone bridge:
weeds grow in its cracks,
its river ran dry.
Stone Bridge [Haiku]
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Category Archives: plants
Perfect Fruit [Senryū]
perfect fruit
still hangs on the tree:
surviving temptation.
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“I fear’d the fury of my wind” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
I fear’d the fury of my wind
Would blight all blossoms fair & true,
And my sun it shin’d & shin’d,
And my wind it never blew.
But a blossom fair or true
Was not found on any tree;
For all blossoms grew & grew
Fruitless, false, tho’ fair to see.
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Camouflage [Senryū]
tree, wrapped in vines,
shape broken & trunk hidden;
an attempt to blend?
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Spring’s Story [Haiku]
unfurled buds,
not drooped to gravity,
tell Spring’s story.
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World Lung [Haiku]
trunk splits to branches
that stretch to the edge
of oxygen’s crossing.
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Understory [Haiku]
understory thrives:
light plants & shadow plants
each finds its place.
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Clouds Out [Haiku]
rhododendrons aren't blooming,
but clouds fled & mountains are out!
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Pinecone [Haiku]
“Granadilla” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
I cut myself upon the thought of you
And yet I come back to it again and again,
A kind of fury makes me want to draw you out
From the dimness of the present
And set you sharply above me in a wheel of roses.
Then, going obviously to inhale their fragrance,
I touch the blade of you and cling upon it,
And only when the blood runs out across my fingers
Am I at all satisfied.
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