rain strike seen
in ripples on the pond
before felt on skin.
Rain Strike [Haiku]
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Misty Falls [Haiku]
mid-Summer:
I pause under misty falls,
'til I feel the Spring.
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Reflection [Haiku]
heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.
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DAILY PHOTO: Views from Vang Vieng’s Bamboo Bridges
“Night Travels” by Du Fu [w/ Audio]
Slender grass waves in a light breeze;
Tall-masted boat rocks in the night.
Stars hang low, over the vast plain;
The river moon struggles for height.
I'll never gain fame by the brush --
Too old for civil service posts...
Wading, wading, what am I like?
A sandpiper on the mud coast!
The original in Chinese (Title: 旅夜書懷):
細草微風岸，
危檣獨夜舟。
星垂平野闊，
月湧大江流。
名豈文章著，
官應老病休。
飄飄何所似，
天地一沙鷗。
This is Poem 113 of “Three Hundred Tang Poems,” i.e. 唐诗三百首
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DAILY PHOTO: Busy River Sunset
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Blossom Drop [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Ambiguous Hour, Laajalahti
Is it sunset? Sunrise? Both? Neither? It was like this for an hour or so when I was in Finland during the Summer. Never getting fully dark.
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“Rain on Lotus” by Yang Wanli [w/ Audio]
Asleep on a leaf beneath lotus blooms,
Their fragrance floats across the misty lake.
Sudden rain - taps upon the canopy;
Its sound snaps me from sleep to wide awake!
The lotus is beaded with rain droplets --
Like pearls, drops roll together and apart;
The clear blobs coalesce like mercury,
Dripping to the river... back to their start.
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Ripples [Haiku]
rocking boat,
splash heard behind --
spin to see... ripples.
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