a desert rose:
its base stout & misshapen;
its blooms elegant
Desert Rose [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: nature
Skeleton Trees [Haiku]
twisted skeletons
of once thriving trees stand
in the temple yard
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DAILY PHOTO: Uluwatu Coastline
Cliff [Haiku]
Light of the Setting Sun [Haiku]
flowers glow brightly
in the sunset’s low light,
and then go dark
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DAILY PHOTO: In Karakol National Park
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Fig in the Wall [Lyric Poem]
It doesn't need wide open spaces. It doesn't need direct sunlight. No bark-wide chasm through the tombstone -- Gardner, leave that tree alone. Hey, Gardner, leave that tree alone! All in all, it's just another fig in the wall. All in all, we're just a bunch of figs in the wall.
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Miasma [Haiku]
the scent of death assaults my nostrils: carcass or fungi?
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Last Blossom [Blank Verse]
The final flower falls to the sidewalk. It's damp and deformed, -n- sugared with sand. It's gritty and pretty at the same time. The ants are crawling around and across. A faintly putrid scent must call to them. They crave that little bit of death in food. And tomorrow it'll be gone -- somehow -- gone. Who knows where: swept up, carried, or wind-blown. It will be gone, and branches will be bare.
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Yellow Camphor [Haiku]
camphor flowers, in a disheveled bouquet, stretch warmly
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