Tag Archives: nature

PROMPT: Mars

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Daily writing prompt
Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like?
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Probably, and life will probably be short and toilsome for quite a while. Short because there’ll be loads of unintended consequence and we will probably learn there are many more aspects of Earth that are consequential to our wellbeing than we ever understood. Toilsome because, as European explorers in Africa thought that everything was trying to kill them, Mars colonists will find that there is not one thing there that wants them alive. Every task involves pushing a boulder uphill.

Monsoon Green [Haiku]

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Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda near Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, India.
what passed for desert
 before monsoon is now
  green and waterlogged.

Shadowland [Haiku]

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Photograph of pastureland north of Gwalior near Mawai in Madhya Pradesh.
big, gray cloud 
 looms overhead: shadow
  inescapable

Breeze [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Gölkənarı Gəzinti Parkı, facing toward the Heydar Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
reeds bend and rebound
 to breezes unnoticed 
  in the city.

Nature DGAF [Haiku]

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Photograph of bitterweed around a grave in a cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wildflowers grow
 around an unattended grave;
  pooped on by birds.

Between Rains [Senryū]

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Photograph of wildflowers atop South Mountain near Gyeongju, South Korea.
wildflowers warm soul
 as step into puddle chills
  the whole body.

Toad’s Time [Senryū]

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Photograph of a Fire-Bellied Toad taken near Gyeongju, South Korea.
toad looks primed to leap;
 i watch... and watch..., but no.
  glancing back; it's gone.

DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain from Lakeside

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Fawn [Haiku]

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fawn rests
 beneath the big leaves
  of new saplings

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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hot patch of granite:
 from any crack or cranny
  something learns to grow.