DAILY PHOTO: A View from Fo Guang Shan with Shrubbery

Autumn [Lyric Poem]

The chill is here.
The sky never
bluer.

The colors turn,
with leaves ever
fewer.

Until a last
hanger-on yields
to a weak breeze.

DAILY PHOTO: Trees & Towers, Piedmont Park

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn Ginko

Hive [Haiku]

massive hives
hang from high branches;
no bees in sight.

The Wall [Haiku]

young trees curve away
from the ancient wall
of a fallen fortress.

Understory [Haiku]

understory thrives:
light plants & shadow plants
each finds its place.

“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens [w/ Audio]

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Cherry [Haiku]

vibrant red orbs
grow in dense clusters --
undisturbed, for now!

DAILY PHOTO: Green Field