bird at work:
flitting branch to branch,
seeking perfect seeds.
Bird at Work [Haiku]
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Category Archives: nature
Urban Forest [Haiku]
deer eyes walker.
jumbo jets scream overhead,
but it heard stick crack.
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Lily Pac-Man [Senryū]
Pac-Men multiply: sought by too few upside-down lily “ghosts.”
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Cross Movement [Haiku]
water flows - mutely - below the train which roars through, hourly
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So Many Eyes [Haiku]
Summer Reeds [Haiku]
Orange Earth [Haiku]
Buds & Blossoms [Haiku]
buds & blossoms,
in vibrant red, gussy up
a dreary cityscape.
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River’s Rise [Lyric Poem]
Stumps are underwater. The pebble beach is gone. Floating docks slant downstream as fast waters roll on. Detritus on pylons: a beaver dam of wood. Coffee brown waters flow where yesterday I stood. Will the levees stand strong until the surge recedes? Will the flood wash away the willows and the reeds?
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Willow, Won’t You? [Blank Verse]
When I see some willows - down by water's edge, drooping in the moonlight, or swaying in the breeze - I think of Blackwood's tale of Danube canoers who land upon an isle to camp among the willows. And will the willows that I see, mark wicked ground, and what will they become when darkness makes its stand? It's such a pretty tree... now all but ruined for me, and that is story's power to sweeten or to sour.
For those interested in reading the referenced story:
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood — free at Project Gutenberg
