Category Archives: trees

DAILY PHOTO: Grassland

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Photograph of tall grass in Winter at the Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.

DAILY PHOTO: A Conspicuous Absence

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Photograph taken on the Butch Kennedy Trail near Pendleton, South Carolina, featuring woods, sky, and a tree trunk that dominates the scene.

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?

Fawn [Haiku]

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fawn rests
 beneath the big leaves
  of new saplings

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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

Understory [Haiku]

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

The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

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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?