thin clouds drift in, showing their black bellies, hiding blue skies like a young boy doing his first magic trick
Cloud Tricks [Tanka]
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Category Archives: nature
The Churn [Free Verse]
On the shore of angry seas I hear the crash of foamy waves, but miss the crisp sudsy sizzle that one hears on a sunny summer day. That nuanced note is lost to the Churn
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Half-Hearted Apology to a Reptile [Common Meter]
Apologies Mister Lizard, didn't mean to step on you. But you kind of blend with the rock. It's not like in the zoo; where there's a sign and pointing kids and barriers, to boot. When one looks just like one's backdrop, it behooves one to scoot. Sorry again about your tail. I'm sure it will grow back. Call it a teachable moment, & get an orange knapsack!
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A Thousand Feet & a Foot-Long [Common Meter]
The millipede was a foot long, but, some might ask, whose foot? Its own feet being quite petite might suggest Lilliput. But though it wasn't a footlong foot, it was long for a bug, a worm, a beetle, a wood mouse, a spider, or a slug. A snake that long would be a babe, or, at least, quite stunted. So, now I find my amazement being a bit blunted.
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Unbridled Movement [Haiku]
even the branches of a brawny Kapok Tree sway in the wind
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Nowhere Station [Haibun]
The tawny landscape was tinged with the green that landlubbers take on in rolling seas or flatlanders show on a high mountain pass. The world looked like it was being viewed through shooter's glasses -- except for the azure infinity overhead that was unafflicted by sickly hues. Railroad tracks arced the length of the valley and it was a long valley - so long the tracks almost looked line like. The lack of other signs of humanity might have led one to believe it was the train to nowhere, but there was a solitary station in the middle of the valley and there can't be a station in the middle of nowhere on the way to nowhere. Or, can there be? Maybe, nowhere is like infinity, existing in larger and smaller degrees. a single building and a long covered platform, but just i, waiting
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Barren Tree [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Botswanan Bee-eater on a Branch
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Parakeets [Haiku]
hanging off a ledge, parakeets fall into flight to their next perch
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DAILY PHOTO: Morpho Menelaus & a Pale Owl-Butterfly
Tiger Riding for Beginners 