the waterfall, thunderous and lofty, is a thin stream from across the valley, and yet i stop & stare
Across the Valley [Tanka]
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Tag Archives: nature
DAILY PHOTO: Dhavalappan Giri
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Swallowtail [Kyōka]
a swallowtail lands; crashed into by another, it doesn't flinch; ten feet away, I lean in and it flutters away
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Ruins in the Tall Grass [Free Verse]
Nature dresses up the detritus of our fallen civilizations. After all but the most resolute stonework has crumbled, cool faces of stone having sloughed off to leave rugged, pitted rock, all that stands testament to life is the tall grass that sways in the wind.
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DAILY PHOTO: Chandravalli Lake
Bucktoothed Monkey Mastermind [Common Meter]
I saw a bucktoothed monkey sit on the ground all alone. It looked the doofus - its dental- mental shortfall shone, but is the size of incisors a measure of one's smarts? Has anyone done the study, gathered data, made the charts? What if that dentally-outsized primate is a dreamer- a mastermind, a supervillain, or just a first-rate schemer? What if it just wants us to think that it's a huge dimwit? So, it doesn't show its erudition, or its razor-keen wit. Instead, it waits for us to be lulled to a false repose, so that it can show us we're all a bunch of biased schmoes.
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Sunrise [Haiku]
in the desert, the sunrise burns brightly, as if sand burned
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Golden Silk Spider [Haiku]
the spider’s mind
is one with the silken web,
tripped by vibration
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Sloth Bear [Senryu]
turning towards one,
the sloth bear becomes
more bear than sloth
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Floating Tree [Haiku]
hugging a wall,
the tree stands suspended;
life finds a way
