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Autumnal Reverie [Tanka]

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wet yellow leaves
stuck to a rain-slick headstone,
and i'm in a land
not of tropical monsoons,
but which knows autumn

Across the Valley [Tanka]

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the waterfall,
thunderous and lofty,
is a thin stream
from across the valley,
and yet i stop & stare

DAILY PHOTO: Dhavalappan Giri

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Taken near Chandravalli Cave on September 10, 2021

Swallowtail [Kyōka]

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a swallowtail lands;
crashed into by another,
it doesn't flinch;
ten feet away, I lean in
and it flutters away

Ruins in the Tall Grass [Free Verse]

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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.

DAILY PHOTO: Chandravalli Lake

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Taken on September 10, 2021 at Chandravalli Lake

Bucktoothed Monkey Mastermind [Common Meter]

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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.