The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change in mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]
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Category Archives: nature
Mountain Miniature [Haiku]
a jutting rock chunk
imitates the mountains
across the valley.
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Backdrop [Haiku]
a snowy mountain.
a church, broad-shouldered & bright,
looks cold & bantam.
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Light Play [Haiku]
light penetrates a fissure,
illuminating a raw wound in rock.
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Discovering Ruins [Haiku]
the trail rounds onto
ruins: an old stone wall,
leaning & twisted.
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Cloud Watching [Haiku]
on the hillside,
amid the wildflowers,
watching clouds shape-shift.
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Disappearing Pigeons [Haiku]
a cloud of pigeons
wheels about in a broad loop;
a thin batch returns.
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The Well-Worn Path [Haiku]
a crisp trail
worn into the grass;
i move, butterfly-like.
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Creepers [Haiku]
the tree’s trunk
engulfed by vines & leaves, though
little light shines through
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Fly [Haiku]
frenetic fly,
spastically flying loops:
lands from whence it flew.
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