a bird absconds
with a tree's last few leaves
for its Winter nest.
Leaf Thief [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Animals
Rainy Rice Field [Haiku]
Bats in the Bamboo [Haiku]
bats hang in bamboo —
blanket-wrapped in wings —
hang like their food, fruit.
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Fish Time [Common Meter]
Fish mill about the koi pond --
No hooks or fishnets;
Just falling leaves to break up
Hours into minutes.
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Squirrel Alarm [Haiku]
Downpour [Haiku]
drying cormorant
folds up its wings, resigned
to grounding by rain.
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Starling [Haiku]
a starling stomps,
like a masked bandit,
across dusty earth.
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One Fish [Haiku]
solitary fish
darts about at lake's edge:
taunting fates & fishers.
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Grazing [Haiku]
horses graze upon
dandelions and green grass,
under snowy heights.
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Rocky Outcrop [Tanka]
the rocky tip
of grass-coiffed outcrop
is all I see,
but the sound of a crow's "CAW!"
comes through loud & clear.
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