Autumn Afternoon [Haiku]

Autumn afternoon,
light warms a copse of pines;
beyond: crisp blue sky.

Amid the Pines [Haiku]

amid pines, blue sky
Autumn days masquerade
as Summertime.

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake

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Photograph taken from a mountain trail around the Kolsay Lakes in Kazakhstan with tall evergreen trees in the fore and lake and valley in the rear.

Winter Forest [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Van de Graaff Park near Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
evergreens peek
over the shoulders
of barren hardwoods.

Pinecone [Haiku]

plump pinecone
nested in copper-
colored needles.

DAILY PHOTO: Evergreen & Pasture in Autumn

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Blank Slate [Haiku]

beyond the lone pine;
there is only blank slate
and vast potential.

Pine & Rose [Lyric Poem]

An evergreen and a red, red rose:
One slowly, but dully, ever grows;
One springs to life only for a short time.
Lifespan pine and beauty rose, apposed?
And risk vice versa? One never knows!

Lone Pine [Haiku]

a lone pine stands --
mangled and misshapen --
above other trees.

Bonsai Bluff [Free Verse]

green-topped granite.

a gnarled evergreen
 clings to the side --
 clings without clinging,

effortlessly jutting out
 over the chasm
 to feel the sun & wind.