Rumbling Relief
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The storms come finally on this hot humid day
Accompanied by thunder and lightning relief in the form of a torrential downpour
Electric disappears with a welcome gust of wind energy renewed with each drop hitting the ground
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(A Cleave Poem)
Sight seeing
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Watching fireworks through the trees
Flying flames highlighting lobed leaves
With every burst nature’s revealed
Pulsing as the embers cartwheel
Safe from the rain beneath the boughs
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Still able to see all the wows
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Watching folks high-end to low-brow
What brings crowds to watch explosions?
They’d run from dynamite or guns
Colorful blasts get aaaahs and ooohs
Somehow these explosions amuse.
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(A Puente Poem)
Calming Cooling Current
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Tubing slowly
Down the cool creek
Heat break we seek
Relaxation
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Cannot rush this
Exploration
Culmination
At rocky shore
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Croak
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Hiding, cooling, feeding, resting
Ambush in camouflage
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(An attempt at a Kural Poem)
No Need for Seymour
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Curvaceous evolution
In chartreuse and burgundy stripes
Beguiling and self-sufficient
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Insects find tubes irresistible
Sweet nectar filled death trap
Slippery, treacherous, efficient
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Silent still tropical carnivore
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Exciting, beautiful, mysterious
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(An Indrisos Poem)
Pressing Pause
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We are all so busy
At least that’s what we say
It’s how we spend the day
We are all so busy
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Saying yes without delay
So careless with our time
Intriguing paradigm
Saying yes without delay
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Would it not be sublime
Daily to take a pause
And say no just because
Would it not be sublime
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We are all so busy
At least that’s what we say
It’s how we spend the day
We are all so busy
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top photo by @the021439 cjf
Learning a New Language
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While you’re planting a plant
Have you stopped to ponder
That this plant can’t wander?
What we can do it can’t
Thought its roots run rampant
It will not live yonder.
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Why did you plant me here
Among these thugs and brutes
Where soil’s bad for my roots
Branches eaten by deer
Blooms hidden by those near
Oh why can’t I uproot?
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What do plants have to say
About our garden display?
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A Picture and a Poem 