dense clusters
of pink flower buds
brighten the trail.
Redbud [Haiku]
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Category Archives: nature
Ivy & Stone [Free Verse]
There's something relentless
in an old stone wall...
But, also, cold and dead.
One knows it will not stand forever --
that it will go the way of
ruins, rubble, stones, and dust --
but, still, it can outstand any man.
Ivy climbs to camouflage the stone's
cruel deathlessness,
But then the ivy stands on the wall
year after year after year...
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Chill Induced Memory [Tanka]
the memory
of an outdoor cafe
at city center
comes to me out of the blue,
on a frigid Winter day.
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Silenced by Ice [Haiku]
seedpod rattle
is silenced by ice crust
on Winter branches.
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First Snow [Haiku]
tufts of grass poke
through a dusting of snow;
tomorrow -- mud!
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DAILY PHOTO: Winter in Big Trees Forest Preserve
Winter Forest [Haiku]
Safety First [Haiku]
stony fortress,
moated: turtle stretches neck
out to sniff the air.
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Acorn [Senryū]
startled squirrel drops
its nut; so sad for it, but
we all get a tree.
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Mobile Home [Common Meter]
Turtle exits its hiding place
beneath a rotten log.
Its shell snags on that old, dead wood
he drags the log along.
Does he know that he's double-shelled?
He seems so unaware.
When he breaks free, he gains no speed --
just crawls on like he don't care.
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