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Autumn Grasshopper [Tanka]
climbing grasshopper
clings to gently bouncing branch;
sure to fall
before the next crunchy leaf
succumbs to Autumn breezes.
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Hive [Haiku]
massive hives
hang from high branches;
no bees in sight.
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Great Mormon [Haiku]
![Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img_0372.jpg)
Great Mormon
flaps its wings spastically,
yet hovers in place.
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Forfeit [Haiku]
brown moth blends against bare earth,
'til footfall tremor sends it lurching.
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Claustrophobic [Haiku]
carpenter bee
crawls into clock vine bloom;
freefalls into flight.
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Transitory [Haiku]
butterfly lands
on flower, pumps wings twice,
and sputters off.
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Bell Pavilion [Haiku]
Summer night:
bell pavilion - silent,
but for cricket chirp.
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Grasshopper [Haiku]
“The earth has many keys” (1775) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.
But witness for her land,
And witness for her sea,
The cricket is her utmost
Of elegy to me.
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