DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from the Sundarbans
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Category Archives: Wilderness
Losers, Finders; Nester’s Blinders [Sonnet]
I ventured beyond civilization, and (by man's definition) I was lost. I knew no near city, state, or nation. Who knows what backwoods borders I'd crossed? I'd drifted down streams: still and rapid tossed, and when boat filled faster than I could bale, I took to foot. Onward at any cost! I passed over mountains and through their vales, and trudged the badlands, unparted by trails. But he who's lost is often he who finds, and I learned history's forfeit details in form of ruins in a sheltered blind. Oh! What novel and beautiful sights are had by lost souls in eternal nights!
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Sundown River [Haiku]
shadowland edges,
and a liquid metal stripe:
river sunset.
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Autumn River [Haiku]
tall grass sways
beside the serene river
one warm Fall day.
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Placid River [Haiku]
the river’s flow
doesn’t disturb the cloud’s
reflected drift.
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Amid the Oaks [Haiku]
it’s cool & rainy,
but the canopy is green:
last days of summer.
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Advancing Forest [Tanka]
the forest stays low, creeping up the valley: like advancing forces, but that hill isn't taken -- season after season.
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In Tall Grass [Free Verse]
Do you feel unease, walking in tall grass? Visceral tension? A primal impression from a time when a wounded beast [on its belly, & with labored breath] retained enough energy for one last lurch to impale its hunter? A raspy groan or bloody burble, and the jerky wave of the grass might be all the warning one got before The End.
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DAILY PHOTO: Valley to Khangchendzonga
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Mossy Tough [Haiku]
rolling stone: no moss?
it thrives in cold, flowing streams
of Himalaya
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