DAILY PHOTO: Blossoms After the Harvest

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

Icarus Tree [Senryū]

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

Paper Beats Rock [Senryū]

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

Mid-stream Tree [Senryū]

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

Fawn [Haiku]

fawn rests
beneath the big leaves
of new saplings

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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

Understory [Haiku]

big-leafed saplings
line the understory:
wee cascade murmurs.

The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

Photograph of a Buddha head carving enveloped by Strangler Fig at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
On a scale from
"this is cozy"
to
"my skull is cracking,"
I wonder how the fig tree
at Wat Mahathat treats
the Buddha's head?

Felonious Fig [Free Verse]

Photograph of a Strangler Fig straddling a stone wall -- taken at Ta Prom, Angkor, Cambodia.
I thought I caught a fig tree,
escaping over a stone wall,
but when I turned my attention
upon it, it stayed so very still.

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake

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Photograph taken from a mountain trail around the Kolsay Lakes in Kazakhstan with tall evergreen trees in the fore and lake and valley in the rear.