with days of rain,
the lake overflows its bank
to carve a creek.
Flash Flood [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Summer Scenes, Arabia Mountain Park
“Beginning My Studies” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Beginning my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much,
The mere fact, consciousness -- these forms -- the power of motion,
The least insect or animal -- the senses -- eyesight -- love;
The first step, I say, aw'd me and pleas'd me so much,
I have hardly gone, and hardly wish'd to go, any further,
But stop and loiter all the time, to sing it in ecstatic songs.
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The Spring Thickens [Haiku]
Spring has arrived!
the view from glade to glade
through woods, is no more.
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Secret Sunset [Haiku]
over the mountains,
the sun is setting
like a bad secret.
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Night Heron [Senryū]
a night heron,
up & about at sunrise,
like diehard revellers.
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A Tender Shade of Green [Haiku]
the leaves that hang
out over the river are
Early Spring green.
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Lone Pine [Haiku]
a lone pine stands --
mangled and misshapen --
above other trees.
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DAILY PHOTO: Watching Cloud Layers from a Mountaintop
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“Natural” [Poetry Style #10] by Sikong Tu [w/ Audio]
Stoop anywhere and pluck it up,
But if you look 'round - it's not there.
Any path may lead you to it.
A stroke of the brush becomes Spring,
And the flowers are in full bloom. --
It's like seeing a new year dawn:
Snatch at it and you won't have it.
Seize it by force and you'll be poorer.
Be like the old mountain hermit --
Like duckweed gathered by stream flow.
Find calm amidst storms of feeling
By knowing Heaven's harmonies.
NOTE: The late Tang Dynasty poet, Sikong Tu (a.k.a. Ssŭ-k‘ung T‘u,) wrote an ars poetica entitled Twenty-Four Styles of Poetry. It presents twenty-four poems that are each in a different tone, reflecting varied concepts from Taoist philosophy and aesthetics. Above is a translation of the tenth of the twenty-four poems.
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