Tag Archives: Rice

DAILY PHOTO: Sân Bóng Sóc Hà

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DAILY PHOTO: More Scenes from Muong Hoa Valley

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Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. rice terraces.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. clouds.

PROMPT: Specialty

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What food would you say is your specialty?

I make a mean pot of steamed rice.

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

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Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
 farmer saunters along
  a rice terrace.

Ripple Chaos [Haiku]

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raindrops ripple paddy water; 
 wavelets wrap into grain stalks.

Heron [Haiku]

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a heron stalks
 amid rice seedlings:
  mild Summer day.

Winter Fields [Haiku]

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tawny grain stalks,
 unkempt, like mussed hair;
  a bird flies out.

Grasshoppers [Haiku]

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walking in rice stalk,
 grasshoppers ping forward, 
  plink - plink - CRUNCH - plink...

Fēnggān [Senryū]

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the monk rode in
 on a bright-eyed tiger, and
  started hulling rice.

Green Fields [Haiku]

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the rice fields 
 are at their most verdant;
  scent of rain.