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The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a Buddha head carving enveloped by Strangler Fig at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
On a scale from
    "this is cozy"
            to 
     "my skull is cracking," 
 I wonder how the fig tree
     at Wat Mahathat treats
          the Buddha's head?

Prickly Pear [Haiku]

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prickly pears bloom: 
 yellow offering bowls —
  bees give & take.

DAILY PHOTO: A Temple in Chiang Mai

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Photograph of a Buddhist Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

DAILY PHOTO: The Colorful Shrine of Great Compassion

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Photograph taken outside the Great Compassion Shrine of Fo Guang Shan outside of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Photograph taken outside the Great Compassion Shrine of Fo Guang Shan outside of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, featuring Bougainvillea.
Photograph taken outside the Great Compassion Shrine of Fo Guang Shan outside of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

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Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India. 
temple wall
 overgrown with weeds;
  idols kept pristine.

First Blossom [Haiku]

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petal flutters down
 from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
  is it the first?

Winter View [Senryū]

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Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India. 
with trees bare, one sees
 what Spring won't reveal:
  monkeys don't care.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
 amid wildflowers:
  city disappears.

DAILY PHOTO: Wisteria

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A Sun Within [Haiku]

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Photograph of purple and yellow water lilies taken in Hanoi, Vietnam.
purple lilies
 open to reveal
  a Sun within.