wide mouth river, its chocolate-colored waters smashed by breakers / the battle is ceaseless; no winner is declared
River Meets Sea [Tanka]
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Tag Archives: outdoors
DAILY PHOTO: Butterfly & Blossoms
DAILY PHOTO: Low Tide Tree
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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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DAILY PHOTO: Forest Path
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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
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The Perils of Watching One’s Step [Tanka]
looking down from blue skies and sparse clouds my next look up the ceiling has lowered and rain is on its way
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Desert Colors [Haiku]
in the desert, color blooms in dense clumps among scrubby sands
