butterflies
mingle jinky orbits
above tall grass.
Jinky Orbits [Haiku]
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Category Archives: insect
Banana Leaf Ant [Senryū]
an ant on a leaf seems small;
on a banana leaf -- somehow -- big.
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Summer Lake [Haiku]
invisible bugs
ripple the lake surface;
from here, it’s mirror.
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Frame of Reference [Free Verse]
a butterfly hangs
upside down,
but it seems upside down
is as meaningless an
an abstraction for it
as the two million km/h
that a human sweeps,
spins, expands, etc.
through space
is for the person who
feels only the couch
against his backside.
what must it be to not know
upside down -- to feel free
to fall, knowing the air
will catch one?
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Beekeeper [Limerick]
There was an equanimous beekeeper --
so calm he looked like an upright sleeper.
Slow & quiet on task
'til one got in his mask,
and blinded him with stings to each peeper.
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Prickly Pear [Haiku]
prickly pears bloom:
yellow offering bowls —
bees give & take.
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Barbed Wire Highway [Senryū]
Dragonfly Eye [Lyric Poem]
The dragonfly strafing lilies
doesn't know how very silly
a bantam taller than a ram
seems to a ram tall as a filly.
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Two Ways to Go [Haiku]
highway parts landscape;
butterflies jink and loiter
as cars speed through.
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Cold Creek [Haiku]
butterflies dance
beside a cold creek,
near sun-warmed leaves.
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