red rhododendrons
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Red Rhododendron [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Stinkhorn [Haiku]
May Orchids [Tanka]
tiny white orchids hug tree trunks & branches, hiding out of sight -- except those at valley's edge, broadcasting their time is short
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Sikkim Rose [Haiku]
a pink rose stands tall in a Sikkimese garden -- mountain mimic
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True Bamboo [Haiku]
bamboo painted against white clouds is betrayed by a breeze
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Prek Chu [Haiku]
soft, shrubby shoulders line Prek Chu's winding way of smooth, white boulders
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Tiny Daisies [Tanka]
tiny daisies stand still under gloomy skies; then one shakes (pelted by a raindrop) then another, then all
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Koi Churn [Haiku]
the pond's surface roils, as koi thrash - orange flames in feeding frenzy
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Temple on a Hill [Free Verse]
granite bubbled out of the jungle, and - upon it - they built a temple its walls were anchored into stone until its walls were the hill, and the hill was its walls and no one could find one true point at which one ended & the other began was it built to be closer to the heavens, or further from hell? not by people for whom heaven & hell reside in the mind -- unattainable by velocity, inescapable by distance -- constant traveling companions only confronted head-on maybe they wanted it to feel permanent, knowing even that granite would crumble in due time
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