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?
The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]
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Category Archives: trees
Felonious Fig [Free Verse]
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.
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DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake
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Tree Hell [Tanka]
pine cone wedged
in a rotten sleeper,
on derelict tracks,
may become a tree
and made into sleepers.
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Monster Toes [Free Verse]
tree trunk studded by thorns
that look like
mean monster toenails
with gnarly green cuticles,
even tree-huggers stay at
arm’s length.
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DAILY PHOTO: A Temple in Chiang Mai
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DAILY PHOTO: Seesaw Statue in Gyeongju
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DAILY PHOTO: Palms & Mountains, Vang Vieng
First Blossom [Haiku]
petal flutters down
from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
is it the first?
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Winter View [Senryū]
with trees bare, one sees
what Spring won't reveal:
monkeys don't care.
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