Shades of Green [Haiku]

sunlit garden
to distant mountains —
every shade of green.

DAILY PHOTO: Sân Bóng Sóc Hà

Green Hills [Lyric Poem]

So many hills I have seen
That grow so soft and thick and green.
Though jagged rocks sit down below
The grass and shrubs and weeds that grow
Through cracks and gaps, in mud patches --
Sprawling wide from tight-knit batches
That stone cannot constrain or kill.

DAILY PHOTO: More Scenes from Muong Hoa Valley

Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. rice terraces.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. clouds.

DAILY PHOTO: Limestone Mountains

DAILY PHOTO: A Shrine in Nà Giàng

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A shrine on the road to the Pác Bó Loop, in the Nà Giàng area -- Northwest of Cao Bang city.

DAILY PHOTO: Love Waterfall, Vietnam

Closeup of Love Waterfall
Portrait orientation photo of Love Waterfall.
The sign at Love Waterfall, near Sa Pa in Northern Vietnam.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain & Farmland in North Vietnam

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A view of mountain and farmland taken along QL3 in Cao Bang District of Northern Vietnam.

Hills of Tranquility [Free Verse]

Stony hills
Blanketed in green;
Softened -
Yet still hard.
Silent -
Yet riotous
As wind buffets
My face when I
Speed past.

DAILY PHOTO: North Vietnamese Green