mountain sunfall:
vivid tree afore; painted
backdrop behind.
Sunfall [Haiku]
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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?
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Gnarled [Free Verse]
Mostly, the dead decay:
they crumble
or rot to goo.
But some trees
turn steely
hard & smooth --
fibers showing like
rigid sinews.
Bare of bark and leaves
and flowers,
but unyielding of
girth and substance.
But even those trees
give way --
perhaps in geologic time
rather than biologic time,
But still the tree will become
someone & something else.
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Shapeshifter [Haiku]
light & shadow play
across the mountains —
redrawing ridges.
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Barbed-Wire Highway [Haiku]
barbed-wire strand:
a two-way ant highway,
around the pasture.
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DAILY PHOTO: Nam Dee Waterfall, Luang Namtha
Moonrise [Free Verse]
Moonrise --
big and bright --
over a quiet town.
People stare --
alone but simultaneously --
'til the milky light
hurts their eyes.
This moon reminds them
of one from childhood
but seems unlike so many since...
But it's all one moon.
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Gangly Sunflower [Haiku]
in an open field,
one sunflower towers,
its head drooping.
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Grassy Bank [Haiku]
Autumn morn sunlight
brightens the grassy bank,
& throws long shadows.
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Chimpanzee [Lyric Poem]
Our closest relative, the Chimpanzee
Lacks our affinity to be fancy.
To them we are but pant-wearing buffoons
Who've lost all freedom to shoot the moon.
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