the mountain fog
cannot keep the secrets
of the bare tree.
Tree in Fog [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Evergreen & Pasture in Autumn
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Leaf Thief [Haiku]
a bird absconds
with a tree's last few leaves
for its Winter nest.
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Vista Tree [Haiku]
Asunder [Haiku]
sprawling tree,
laid asunder by its own weight:
a crack plus time
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Askew [Haiku]
askew tombstones
under a yawning tree:
a crow on its branch.
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“I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down
from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there
uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made
me think of myself,
But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous
leaves standing alone there without its
friend near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain
number of leaves upon it, and twined
around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in
sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own
dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than
of them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it
makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens
there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat
space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a
friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.
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Death of a Stout Tree [Common Meter]
Oh, those high waters are rising;
They've spilled their banks in flood,
Slouching toward the Tree of Life:
Its roots immersed in mud.
That tree is just so stout & straight --
Unambitious of height --
Not man nor beast could knock it down,
Regardless of their might.
But just a long soak of its roots --
A gift of too much good --
And then a well-timed gust of wind
Will turn that tree to wood.
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Blank Slate [Haiku]
beyond the lone pine;
there is only blank slate
and vast potential.
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Willows [Haiku]
willows dangle
over flowing waters:
reaching not touching.
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