on the arid steppe sits a green oasis - patchwork fields
Himalayan Oasis [Haiku]
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Chiaroscuro Green [Free Verse]
densely packed stands of pine, the dark green insinuating black shadow set against the verdant grassy meadows and shaggy scrubland it makes the mountain look angular, with sharp edges pounded into shape the pine-writ shadows steal depth, suggesting absence, creating the impression of emptiness, a false void... or so it seems
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Coffee Plantation [Haiku]
coffee estate. one yellow plant stands out from a wall of green
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Blush [Haiku]
Vertigo Green [Haibun]
Life overtakes all. Moss coats stone; vines smother shrubs; trees straddle walls. All growing in splotched patterns of green -- a million shapes of leaf in a million subtly different shades. My world is awash in green. My mind is soothed by deep greens, and fired by the bright light-greens of fresh growth. My periphery swirls and blurs with green. a mossy stone becomes my focal point, the fringe blurs
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DAILY PHOTO: The Green, Green Grass of Dubai
Taken in May of 2016 in Dubai.
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POEM: Unceasing Jungle
The jungle paints the ruins green —
brown blocks are made verdant.
So, you can’t see its ordered shape
’til you part the curtain
of palms and vines and mammoth leaves
that hide those old remains —
once hacked back by muscled men who,
daily, took great pains
to clear the rampant jungle growth
out beyond moat and berm.
‘Til the invading army won,
and Fort was deemed infirm.
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DAILY PHOTO: Blooming Orange
GREEN WINTER HAIKU
a crow caws
standing on a stout post
black eye watching
a child wonders,
beyond this rainy valley,
is it white?
nothing scurries
but mushrooms sprout
wet forest floor
lonely bus stop
one man waits for a nearly
empty bus
streaks of blue
viewed through cloudy skies
a bird hops
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DAILY PHOTO: Kashmir
Taken in August of 2016 near Sonamarg
