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?
The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]
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Tag Archives: Strangler fig
Felonious Fig [Free Verse]
I thought I caught a fig tree,
escaping over a stone wall,
but when I turned my attention
upon it, it stayed so very still.
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CAMBODIA LIMERICK
There was a Cambodian archaeologist
who dug up temples in jungles – get the gist.
But one day his dig,
under a Strangler Fig,
got him strangled… or so claimed the botanist.
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Fortress [Senryū]
ancient fortress:
tree grows through cracks;
the tree will win.
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Urban Jungle [Kyōka]
in a city park,
muscular baobabs &
wiry strangler figs
provide residences
for the fierce squirrels.
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Strangler Fig Limerick
There was a man who lived in the jungle -oh! A fig took root in the roof of his bungalow. 'Twas a spotless hut, 'til the door grew shut, and the place was overcome by a fungal growth.
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Web of Roots [Haiku]
a web of fig roots drapes in wild tangles, & a sapling - straight & green
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DAILY PHOTO: Ta Prohm Strangler
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DAILY PHOTO: Strangler Fig Guards Gate
Taken in October of 2012 at Angkor
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DAILY PHOTO: Buddha Head at Wat Mahathat
Strangler fig chokes the Buddha
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