a bonsai tree:
gnarled & twisted,
yet so strong.
Bonsai [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Liberty Square [Szabadság tér,] Budapest
“A Bird, came down the Walk” (359) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
A Bird, came down the Walk --
He did not know I saw --
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then, he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass--
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass --
He glanced with rapid eyes,
That hurried all abroad --
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
He stirred his Velvet Head. --
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers,
And rowed him softer Home --
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
Leap, plashless as they swim.
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I don’t collect favorites. I like reading, hiking, writing, swimming, playing, exercise, traveling, cooking… each in its due time for its due time.
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DAILY PHOTO: Makalidurga Hill
Home Invasion [Haiku]
the heron stares at
the unwitting egret’s back:
unfond of flatmate?
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DAILY PHOTO: Evergreen & Pasture in Autumn
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Beyond Eye & Mind [Kyōka]
a bare tree,
beside the stream,
sent leaves to the sea:
how far did they get?
"beyond eye & mind."
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“Fragmentary Blue” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet) ---
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
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Leaf Thief [Haiku]
a bird absconds
with a tree's last few leaves
for its Winter nest.
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