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.

DAILY PHOTO: God’s Eye Mountain, Cao Bằng

A Rugged Coast [Free Verse]

Limestone lumps
Karst columns
Dot the waters,
Like ancient wreckage --
Wrack & ruin
Slung near & far
From coastal homelands;
A landscape torn asunder
And littered about,
But beloved for the beauty
Of its scraggy, weedy
Weathered rock.

DAILY PHOTO: Cave Framed

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Backdrops, Vang Vieng

Karst [Free Verse]

Dissolving mountains.

Craggy & rugged outside.
Stone pock-marked & pitted,
Deformed natural bonsai
growing out of the cliff.

Hollow on the inside.
Amorphous caves tunnel
under those rocky tops,
Smooth lumpy cave floors
and walls,
Rough & gritty stalactites
overhead.

How long does it take to dissolve
a mountain?

DAILY PHOTO: Shack & Mountain

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Landscape Scars [Haiku]

limestone hillsides
 slough to form lasting scars
  in a treed landscape.