I came across a turbinate shell
While walking forest, glade, and dell.
With fingernail, I gave a tap
To learn if its tenant was in nap.
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Category Archives: nature
Golden Grass [Haiku]
Autumn sunlight
strikes dry pampas grass
and it flares gold.
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“The Blossom” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
Merry, Merry Sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.
Pretty, Pretty Robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, Pretty Robin,
Near my bosom.
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PROMPT: Best/Worst Pets
Best: Dogs and Cats
Worst: Hippopotami, African Elephants, the Black Mamba, Right Whales, Pumas, Condors, Puffer Fish, Howler Monkeys, Rhinoceroses, Hammerhead Sharks, Lowland Gorillas, Geese, Cape Buffalo, Galapagos Tortoise, Bengal Tigers, Pronghorn Antelope… , and anything else that some jackass builds a house-sized chain-link fence cage in his backyard to “keep.”
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Bird on a Wire [Lyric Poem]
On a pleasant mid-Spring day,
A bird landed -- no bounce or sway.
It perched, chirping - as if in play:
I blinked, and it'd flown away.
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Purple Ring [Haiku]
ring of blossoms
around the tree trunk:
still, as shadows creep.
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Reflection [Haiku]
heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.
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Songbird [Haiku]
Roadside [Haiku]
roadside tree
shakes with each passing truck,
but no blooms fall.
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Elephant’s Eye [Haiku]
crops hide the farmhouse,
but can't conceal distant mountains.
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