Yielding [Tanka]

Photograph of a small stone pagoda in the grass at the base of an evergreen tree. Taken in Medellin, Colombia at the Castillo Museum and Gardens.
beneath cypress trees
stands a small pagoda;
top tier damaged
by storm-dropped limbs;
it won't outlast those trees.

Summer Gust [Haiku]

malformed tree 
stands rigid against
a Summer gust.

Caterpillars [Haiku]

caterpillars
on each branch;
leaves, but memories.

Paper Beats Rock [Senryū]

sapling grows in boulder,
splitting it in twain;
paper does beat rock.

The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

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?

Felonious Fig [Free Verse]

Photograph of a Strangler Fig straddling a stone wall -- taken at Ta Prom, Angkor, Cambodia.
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.

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake

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Photograph taken from a mountain trail around the Kolsay Lakes in Kazakhstan with tall evergreen trees in the fore and lake and valley in the rear.

Tree Hell [Tanka]

pine cone wedged
in a rotten sleeper,
on derelict tracks,
may become a tree
and made into sleepers.

DAILY PHOTO: Seesaw Statue in Gyeongju

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Photograph featuring classic Korean architecture and a seesaw statue. Taken in Gyeongju, South Korea.

DAILY PHOTO: Palms & Mountains, Vang Vieng

Photograph of a palm tree in the fore and karst mountains in the background. Taken outside Vang Vieng, Laos.
Photograph with Vang Vieng Village and a palm tree in the foreground, and karst mountains in the background.