I take a sunrise photo
And find the glorious orb
Diminished by poor photography,
& upstaged by a flaring pigeon.
Diminished [Free Verse]
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Category Archives: Animals
Lonely Egret [Haiku]
Snake Fisher [Haiku]
snake wrestles fish
onto rocky home turf, &
blends with sun-warmed stones.
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Frogs Heard, Not Seen [Haiku]
grass-rattle, plop!
grass-rattle, plop! -- repeats...
at last, I see a frog.
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Camouflage, Not! [Haiku]
a squirrel chitters;
its black body against
the ash gray tree.
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Garden Carp [Haiku]
saffron-colored carp
mill about the garden pond.
a cat watches...
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Roosters of Youth [Haiku]
when I was a child,
roosters aggressively charged;
now: they flee, clucking.
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Stalking Tiger [Free Verse]
A giant tiger stalks,
baring teeth, tensing claws,
closing the distance
in deep shadows that exist
entirely within the man's mind.
While others, from safe distances,
can see the fearsome beast clearly.
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Cat Dandy [Kyōka]
cat on a porch rail
preens between naps
to look good
for the twenty waking
minutes of its day.
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Riverbed Reveal [Haiku]
gray day river --
the exposed riverbed
shows only by tracks
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