DAILY PHOTO: A Clearing, w/ Evergreen & Sky
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All the Colors [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Bare Tree on a Cemetery Hill
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DAILY PHOTO: Tree & Mausoleum of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah
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Root of Suffering [Haiku]
between boulders grows a sinewy tree -- robust by ordeals
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Infinite Snails [Haiku]
in a tree hollow,
snails multiply as far
as the eye can see
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Kapok Tree [Haiku]
sinuous roots of the silk-cotton tree; are they moving?
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Elephantine Baobab [Free Verse]
It's called Hatiyan-ka-Jhad because it looks like a huddled herd of elephants -- not only in its corpulence but also with its rough, gray skin. So rotund at its base that it's hard to figure how its slowly slimming upward taper can come to twiggy ends, and not be a mile tall. The branches are overly muscular, like a bodybuilder who got carried away, moving from strong and vigorous into the domain of science fiction mishap. It has its own mythology -- multiple creation tales about how its seed got from Madagascar to the middle of India half a millennium ago: tales of fakirs and royal envoys. It's even been said that the Forty Thieves, the ones who tormented Ali Baba, used its hollow as their cache cave. But it refuses to respond to "Open Sesame" -- so I guess we'll never know.
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Tree of a Thousand Twigs [Free Verse]
When monsoon rains soaked the soil, that old tree toppled. They cut it out of the roadway, & I went out to count its rings, but found it not with hundreds of rings, but hundreds of trunks -- many no more than twigs. What a mighty tree a pile of twigs pressed together can make, & now it's gone.
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Knotty Tree [Haiku]
the knotty tree stretches wide to reach light -- strength from warped fibers
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