Category Archives: poem

Dripping Blossom [Haiku]

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Photograph of a pink and orange flower taken in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
droplets drip 
  from the bottom petal, 
   after the rain.

Misty Mountain [Haiku]

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Photograph of mushroom caps among lichens and leaves, taken in the mountains near Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
in misty mountains,
 tiny fungi bloom amid
  lichens and mosses.

Jungle Entropy [Senryū]

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Photograph taken on Bukit Cina in Malacca, Malaysia.
the jungle wants to 
 hide, then eat, whatever
  humans build in it.

Depth Deception [Senryū]

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Photograph of reeds and water plants taken in Vientiane, Laos. 
reeds & water plants
 look like you could walk among them.
  you could -- waist deep.

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

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Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
 before monsoon is now
  green and waterlogged.

Duck out of Water [Epigram]

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Photograph taken in the Halasuru neighborhood of Bangalore of ducks in water.
The "duck out of water"
   might just take to flight.

Shadowland [Haiku]

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Photograph of pastureland north of Gwalior near Mawai in Madhya Pradesh.
big, gray cloud 
 looms overhead: shadow
  inescapable

Dog Day [Haiku]

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Photograph of late afternoon from Gudibande Fort near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India. 
orange-tinged sky
 as a dog day afternoon
  draws to a close.

Two Worlds / One Valley [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Stepantsminda down the Terek River valley towards Russia.
sunny mountains;
 down the valley farmers
  socked in by clouds.

Breeze [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Gölkənarı Gəzinti Parkı, facing toward the Heydar Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
reeds bend and rebound
 to breezes unnoticed 
  in the city.