DAILY PHOTO: Low Tide Tree
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Tag Archives: nature
Emptiness [Haiku]
Falling Leaf [Haibun]
A leaf falls, spinning as it drifts downward. Then, for an instant, it seems to pause in the air before continuing to drop, twist, and flutter. I question whether the leaf stopped, my mind stopped, or the universe stopped. Probably, nothing stopped -- a mere momentary balance of updraft and gravitational pull, an unstable and ephemeral equilibrium, like a spontaneous retention of breath -- usually missed before it can be noticed, but just this one time, I was witness. a falling leaf seems to pause in air, and I am there
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Tumbling Petals [Haiku]
Seed of Ambition [Tanka]
over the river, a seed pod twirls toward the creeping waters, and thus a lazy seed will hitch a thousand miles
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Raging Elephant [Haiku]
the elephant
they said was on a rampage
just had a bad toothache
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Drunken Tree Haiku
Sky Burial [Tanka]
circling raptors sweep down onto the platform; they peck and tear; when sun-bleached bones remain, nature's hard work begins
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Labyrinthine Lake [Haibun]
Patches of grassy land stand above the water. They lop up the lake into a labyrinth of passageways. Even in a shallow draft canoe, one can often see past the phumdi grass, but still one must know the tiny isles or be trapped among them. a narrow boat silently glides between floating islands
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Bone Mountain [Haibun]
The landscape is strewn with boulders, its topography formed from piles of them, its flat fields dotted with them. These boulders are the remnants of a once mighty mountain -- an ancient mountain. People stand in awe of those rough, angular slabs of granite, standing a mile high. But those are the young whippersnappers. This mountain is so old that it's just a pile of bones, devoid of connective tissue or fleshy covering. It's a corpse of a mountain that has half buried itself. the ancient mountain is now bone-smooth boulders its age unsung
