Stand Strong [Haiku]

overflown banks:
trees stand strong
against the flow.

DAILY PHOTO: Brown Waters of Mahaweli Ganga

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Sundarbans

Edge of Weather [Haiku]

Winter day:
bright sunlight at cloud's end --
glassy river.

“Down to Jiangling” [下江陵] by Li Bai [李 白]

I left Baidi amid ochre clouds --
Crossed a thousand li by day's end.
Monkeys howled and chased along each bank;
My skiff slipped past ten thousand mountains.

The original in Simplified Chinese:

朝辞白帝彩云间
千里江陵一日还
两岸猿声啼不住
轻舟已过万重山

Note: this is poem #269 of the 300 Tang Poems [唐詩三百首.]

Reflection [Haiku]

heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.

Night in a River City [Haiku]

river city:
after dark, boats slip moorings
to glide silently.

DAILY PHOTO: Views from Vang Vieng’s Bamboo Bridges

DAILY PHOTO: Busy River Sunset

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