Tag Archives: trees

Shadow-dappled [Haiku]

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shadow-dappled
 forest floor stretches to a
  confusion of trees.

DAILY PHOTO: Willow & Yellow, Imperial City of Huế

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Photograph taken in the Imperial City of Huế, featuring a yellow outbuilding, a stone wall, and willow trees.

DAILY PHOTO: Grassland

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Photograph of tall grass in Winter at the Chaminuka Nature Reserve outside of Lusaka, Zambia.

DAILY PHOTO: A Conspicuous Absence

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Photograph taken on the Butch Kennedy Trail near Pendleton, South Carolina, featuring woods, sky, and a tree trunk that dominates the scene.

DAILY PHOTO: Blossoms After the Harvest

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Photograph of a farm on the outskirts of Pai, Thailand -- post rice harvest but with blossoming trees.

Icarus Tree [Senryū]

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a dead tree
 stands above the living;
  it didn’t pace itself.

Mid-stream Tree [Senryū]

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Tree that sits mid-stream
 is not your average tree.
  Stillness amid flow?

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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hot patch of granite:
 from any crack or cranny
  something learns to grow.

The Fig Treatment [Free Verse]

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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?

DAILY PHOTO: Views of the National Museum of Qatar

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Photograph in the courtyard of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar with palm tree -- taken in Doha.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar taken from an elevated view in Sheikh Abdulla bin Jassim Al-Thani Palace.
Photograph of the National Museum of Qatar flagpole.