branches arch & spiral,
yet the tree balances.
Balance [Haiku]
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Category Archives: plants
Cold Lilies [Haiku]
Hawkweed [Haiku]
Hawkweed blooms
beside a creek that sparkles
with summer sunlight.
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Trampled [Haiku]
beside the trail:
a trampled dandelion
springs back, slowly.
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Early Spring [Haiku]
lake shimmer;
Spring sneaks in early --
trees still bare.
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Crimson Fig [Haiku]
sunbeams pass through
a reddened Sacred Fig:
one hundred warm hues.
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Crazy Tree [Senryū]
tree that sprawls
twists & winds chaotically:
strength from crazy
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On Mud & Lotus [Free Verse]
The saying goes:
“No mud - no lotus!”
But I can’t help but notice
That the flower is long-stemmed,
Raising it high above the mud.
A tropical newbie,
I used to confuse
Lotuses & Water Lilies.
Then I learned the simplest
Way to distinguish the flowers
(From a distance)
Is that Lily pads
Rest on the water,
While Lotus leafs
Also try to rise
above the muddy water.
I can’t help but wonder whether
Our admiration has made the
Lotus too good for its mud?
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Tough Pink Blooms [Haiku]
flower cluster hangs
through a cold December --
the last leaf lone gone.
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Ice Fringe [Haiku]
ice crystals fringe
the stems of seedpods
that rattle in wind.
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