At day's end, feeling ill-at-ease,
Riding a cart to the plateau.
The setting sun fires glorious skies,
But a yellow dusk is coming.
“Ascending Happiness Plateau” by Li Shangyin [w/ Audio]
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Lightness [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Gallery of Water, Jermuk
Bush Bird Math [Senryū]
a bird in a bush:
does it know it’s worth
half a bird in hand?
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“There was an Old Man with a beard” by Edward Lear [w/ Audio]
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"
NOTE: This poem no. 1 of Lear’s The Book of Nonsense.
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Zen Garden [Haiku]
little Zen Garden
evokes a craggy cliff
despite scale issues.
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The Dao Keeps Rolling [Tanka]
one character, Dao,
looks like a road that rounds
some great attraction,
but keeps moving onward
to undiscovered country.
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DAILY PHOTO: Mt. Kazbek and Gergeti
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Dog Rose [Haiku]
one dog rose bloom
stands out from a blurred world:
still, as shadows twist.
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“The Snow Storm” by Edna St. Vincent Millay [w/ Audio]
No hawk hangs over in this air:
The urgent snow is everywhere.
The wing adroiter than a sail
Must lean away from such a gale,
Abandoning its straight intent,
Or else expose tough ligament
And tender flesh to what before
Meant dampened feathers, nothing more.
Forceless upon our backs there fall
Infrequent flakes hexagonal,
Devised in many a curious style
To charm our safety for a while,
Where close to earth like mice we go
Under the horizontal snow.
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