DAILY PHOTO: Shrine, Gergeti Trinity Church
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Mountain Deception [Haiku]
I glance upward;
the mountain seems closer;
I feel colder.
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“Above the blossoms sing the orioles” by Han-Shan [w/ Audio]
Above the blossoms sing the orioles:
Kuan kuan, their clear notes.
The girl with a face like jade
Strums to them on her lute.
Never does she tire of playing --
Youth is the time for tender thoughts.
When the flowers scatter and the birds fly off
Her tears will fall in the spring wind.
Translated of Burton Watson in: Cold Mountain: 100 poems by the T’ang poet Han-Shan, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 22
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Fly [Lyric]
They say that each and every single fly
Has five thousand lenses in each eye:
A three-sixty view from toes to rump,
And thus I become the fly-swatting chump.
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PROMPT: Alternative Career Paths
What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?
1.) Teaching English as a Second / Other / Foreign Language
2.) Grand Emperor of the Spiral Arm
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Khajuraho [Western Group]
Strange Land [Haiku]
tropic reversal:
tawny grass of April;
lush green October.
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“The Pasture” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come too.
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Lizard [Lyric Poem]
Ah! What a life, to be a lizard:
Unacquainted with ice or blizzard,
Knowing only warmth and beaches...
All but for sand in one's nether reaches.
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DAILY PHOTO: Red House and Treetops, Caye Caulker
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